Bug#636609: perl: FTBFS on hurd-i386

[Niko Tyni]

On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 05:00:24PM +0200, Pino Toscano wrote:
> Package: perl
> Version: 5.12.4-1
> Severity: important
> Tags: patch
> User: debian-hurd at lists.debian.org
> Usertags: hurd

> The attached patch adds hints for ext/ODBM_File, and improving the
> general "gnu" hints, copying a couple of stuff which makes sense from
> the linux.pl hints, like the library patch search, the pthread linking
> (needed on hurd).

Thanks.

The other things look fine to me, but about this one:

> +libswanted="$libswanted pthread"

hints/gnu.sh already has

set `echo X "$libswanted "| sed -e 's/ nsl / /' -e 's/ c / pthread /'`

which to my eye looks pthread already ends up in libswanted (because
Configure includes 'c' there unconditionally.) Isn't this enough? Is
it broken? Does pthread need to be the last library in the list?

(If this is related to the libdb_needs_pthread block in hints/linux.sh,
 the whole libdb.so test probably needs to be copied into gnu.sh too
 for upstreaming this properly.)
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org