[Debian GNUstep maintainers] Bug#593898: gnustep-back-common: Fails to upgrade in postinst script

[Axel Beckert]

Hi,

Yavor Doganov wrote:
> Can you compile (just `make', you need libgnustep-base-dev) and run
> the attached test program this way:
> 
> while true; do for d in `expr $((d + 1))`;  do ./obj/test `seq $d`; done; done

Modified it a little bit so that it stops when it fails:

!539 Z32 ?0 L1 abe at metisse:ttyp6 (-su) 16:50:58 [/tmp] > i=0; while test $i -eq 0; do for d in `expr $((d + 1))`; do ./obj/test `seq $d`; i=$?; done; done
Arguments given: 3
Arguments given: 4
Arguments given: 5
Arguments given: 6
Arguments given: 7
Arguments given: 8
[...]
Arguments given: 508
Arguments given: 509
Arguments given: 510
Arguments given: 511
Arguments given: 512
Error: libkvm does not return arguments for the current process
this may be due to a bug (undocumented feature) in libkvm
which fails to get arguments unless /proc is mounted.
If so, you can mount the /proc filesystem or reconfigure/build
gnustep-base with --enable-fake-main as a workaround, and
should report the bug to the maintainer of libkvm on your operating system.

> Obviously, NSProcessInfo + libkvm works in the usual scenario (few
> arguments), otherwise many GNUstep packages would FTBFS on
> GNU/kFreeBSD (the build process invokes programs like pl2link with
> arguments).

Seems so.

		Regards, Axel
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