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

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Sun, May 08, 2011 at 09:43:55AM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> 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.

I asked the release team to schedule it again, and it also failed
on ancina.debian.org and alwyn.debian.org, so it's apparently not
an uncommon failure on this arch.

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