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

[Damyan Ivanov]

-=| Niko Tyni, Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 08:44:41AM +0300 |=-
> > It would seem to be related to fakeroot, just running 'fakeroot 
> > make
> > test' hangs for me more than half of the time.
> 
> /usr/share/doc/fakeroot/README reads:
> 
>  fakeroot can be built to either use SYSV IPC or TCP for message passing.
> 
>  Cases for which the SYSV IPC version fails or causes problems but for
>  which fakeroot-tcp has been observed to work well include the items
>  listed below.
> 
>    * Multithreaded applications (using pthread)
>    * Running under realtime-preempt kernel
> 
> Indeed, I can't get the tests to hang with fakeroot-tcp.

Confirmed:

 $ sh threadtest.sh 100 fakeroot-tcp
 Run 100: 100 OK, 0 not OK

> Adding the patch tag based on the above evidence.

I'll make the changes, upload and ask for unblock.

Niko, thank you very much for your analysis. Very good and useful, as 
always :)

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