Bug#497693: libthread-pool-simple-perl: FTBFS in lenny: build times out

[Niko Tyni]

tag 497693 confirmed
thanks

On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 05:17:43PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> Package: libthread-pool-simple-perl
> Version: 0.23-2
> Severity: serious
> User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
> Usertags: qa-ftbfs-20080903 qa-ftbfs
> Justification: FTBFS on i386
 
> During a rebuild of all packages in a lenny chroot, your package failed
> to build on i386.
> 
> Erm, I was sure to have reported this already, but apparently I didn't.

Sure you did, twice actually. They were just closed as unreproducible
and have been archived since. See #427163 and #487013.

> t/1 and t/3 both block during the build.

I can reproduce the t/3.t hang quite easily on both an SMP amd64/sid
Xen host with an Etch kernel, and an i386/lenny uniprocessor host 
with the Lenny kernel (2.6.26+15).

It would seem to be related to fakeroot, just running 'fakeroot make
test' hangs for me more than half of the time. It's evading strace, so
it's hard to say what exactly is hanging. The output from 3.t is just
one line before the hang:

 sid% fakeroot perl -Iblib/lib -Iblib/arch t/3.t
 ok 1 - use Thread::Pool::Simple;

The test suite is run in the install target. I think just moving it to
the build target so it's run without fakeroot would probably fix this.
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org