Bug#818233: Fails to build from source on kfreebsd-amd64

[Steven Chamberlain]

Hi,

Gianfranco Costamagna wrote:
> Hi, I would like to point you to the Ubuntu patch that should fix this issue, by (probably) fixing
> the tests instead of disabling it.
> https://patches.ubuntu.com/g/gdk-pixbuf/gdk-pixbuf_2.32.2-1ubuntu1.patch

I suspect that disabling MALLOC_PERTURB, reduces the test's coverage.
Without MALLOC_PERTURB, maybe a different input file could reproduce the
same crash still.

Someone could also experience the bug at run-time of some application,
while using MALLOC_PERTURB to debug.  If that triggers a crash, even if
it is some kind of 'false positive', it needs fixing really.

I think there are still problems in gdk-pixbuf's handling of large
images, and the failures on kfreebsd hint at that.  But until it can be
demonstrated on Linux as well, I don't expect to attract much interest
to the problem upstream.  I'd prefer to just wait it out, until there is
a new testcase.

(I think Dimitro John Ledkov did see this on linux-s390x, but I still
don't think it's an architecture most people "care about".)

Regards,
-- 
Steven Chamberlain
steven at pyro.eu.org
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