Bug#707733: pygobject: FTBFS on kfreebsd

[Christoph Egger]

Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu at debian.org> writes:
> Package: pygobject
> Version: 3.8.1-2
> Severity: serious
>
> (CCing BSD porters, help wanted here)
>
> pygobject currently fails to build on kfreebsd, see [1]
>
> I've tried to debug this on falla. I can reproduce the hang somewhat reliably
> by running:
>
> dpkg-buildpackage
>
> And if it doesn't hang or if you want to hang it again:
>
> while true; do xvfb-run dh_auto_test --builddirectory=build-2.7; done
>
> The hanging test is in test_overrides_gtk.py, but running with
> TEST_FILES=test_overrides_gtk.py doesn't reproduce the hang so reliably here.
>
> I've run gdb on the hanging python process and I get:
>
> (gdb) thread apply all bt
>
> Thread 1 (process 75189):
> #0  0x000000080161ed4a in kevent () at ../sysdeps/unix/syscall-template.S:82
> #1  0x0000000802a57bd7 in _kqueue_thread_func (arg=<optimized out>)
>     at /build/buildd-glib2.0_2.36.1-2-kfreebsd-
> amd64-CmfXXB/glib2.0-2.36.1/./gio/kqueue/kqueue-thread.c:226
> #2  0x0000000800a91c4a in pthread_start_thread (arg=<optimized out>) at
> manager.c:317
> #3  0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
> (gdb)
>
> Note that this is with libc0.1-dbg and libglib2.0-0-dbg installed.
>
> After this I'm lost. Any help is welcome. Otherwise I'll just have to stop
> running the whole test suite on kfreebsd, but I'd be sad to do that.

Sounds like it could be similar to

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=706276

Looking at it right now

    Christoph

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