Bug#796798: perl/experimental: FTBFS on kfreebsd-*: t/op/stat.t failure

[Dominic Hargreaves]

Control: retitle -1 perl: FTBFS on kfreebsd-*: t/op/stat.t
Control: found -1 5.20.2-6

On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 07:15:19PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> Package: perl
> Version: 5.22.0-3
> Severity: important
> X-Debbugs-Cc: kfreebsd-i386 at buildd.debian.org, kfreebsd-amd64 at buildd.debian.org
> 
> This package failed to build on kfreebsd-amd64 and kfreebsd-i386:
> 
>   # Failed test 9 - hard link ctime != mtime at op/stat.t line 147
>   # it should not be "1440284403"
>   # but it is.
>   # Check if you are on a tmpfs of some sort.  Building in /tmp sometimes
>   # has this problem.  Building on the ClearCase VOBS filesystem may also
>   # cause this failure.
>   #
>   # Darwin's UFS doesn't have a ctime concept, and thus is expected to fail
>   # this test.
>   t/op/stat ..................................................... FAILED at test 9
>   
> This didn't happen with 5.22.0-2, and I can't see how the changes in -3
> could have caused this.
> 
> I see the buildds are now running kernel 10.1-0 while the earlier
> builds were on 9.0-2.
> 
> @buildd admins: any ideas? Are there known issues with ctime in
> /tmp on the buildds?

I tested on falla, and found that this is not specific to perl 5.22,
so adjusting metadata accordingly. It's also not specific to the schroot
environment, at least on the buildds; the same test fails outside the
chroot.

More to come.

Dominic.