Bug#625828: libipc-sharelite-perl: FTBFS on armel: test failures

[Niko Tyni]

tags 625828 + squeeze
thanks

On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 12:38:42PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> Package: libipc-sharelite-perl
> Version: 0.17-1
> Severity: serious
> Tags: wheezy sid
> User: debian-perl at lists.debian.org
> Usertags: perl-5.12-transition
> 
> This package failed to build on armel only against Perl 5.12.
> 
>  https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=libipc-sharelite-perl&arch=armel&ver=0.17-1%2Bb1&stamp=1304522076

> Haven't investigated whether this is a regression with Perl 5.12 or
> something else. The last time it was built on armel was in March 2009.

I can reproduce this on abel.debian.org with both squeeze (Perl 5.10)
and sid (5.12), but not on agricola.debian.org at all. Either kernel or
hardware specific? I see from the build log that arnold.debian.org (the
buildd) is running "Linux 2.6.32 armel (armv5tel)" which matches abel.

Running the test under strace:
 strace -f -olog perl -Iblib/lib -Iblib/arch  t/sharelite.t
makes the test succeed, which isn't really helpful.

Will try to make a pure C equivalent of the test next and see if that
makes a difference.

The short term fix may be to retry this on another buildd.
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org