Bug#708792: perl/experimental: FTBFS on sparc: Bus errors

[Niko Tyni]

On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 08:02:54PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 07:22:26PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> > Package: perl
> > Version: 5.18.0~rc1-1
> > Severity: important
> > User: debian-perl at lists.debian.org
> > Usertags: perl-5.18-transition
> > 
> > perl from experimental failed to build on sparc, miniperl gives bus errors:
> 
> > Next step is to try unpatched 5.18.0 with and without -Dusethreads.
> 
> Reproducible with vanilla 5.18.0, needs both -Dusethreads and
> -Duse64bitint.
> 
>  ./Configure -des -Dusethreads -Duse64bitint  -Doptimize="-g -O0"

Bisecting results last night:

8be227ab5eaa23f2d21fd15f70190e494496dcbe is the first bad commit

 http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commit/8be227ab5eaa23f2d21fd15f70190e494496dcbe

> Will report this upstream.

smetana isn't letting me in for some reason, so this will have to wait a bit.
I still need the 'perl -V' output for the report etc.
-- 
Niko