Bug#665388: libperlbal-xs-httpheaders-perl: FTBFS: C code doesn't load reliably

[Jonathan Steinert]

Oooof, yeah.

Thanks for the suggestion, I'll take a peek.

On 3/23/12 10:44 AM, Aaron M. Ucko wrote:
> Source: libperlbal-xs-httpheaders-perl
> Version: 0.20-1
> Severity: serious
> Justification: fails to build from source
>
> Builds of libperlbal-xs-httpheaders-perl have failed on several
> architectures with errors of the form
>
>    #   Failed test 'use Perlbal::XS::HTTPHeaders;'
>    #   at t/HTTPHeaders.t line 10.
>    #     Tried to use 'Perlbal::XS::HTTPHeaders'.
>    #     Error:  Not a CODE reference at /usr/lib/perl/5.14/DynaLoader.pm line 207.
>    # END failed--call queue aborted at .../libperlbal-xs-httpheaders-perl-0.20/blib/lib/Perlbal/XS/HTTPHeaders.pm line 207.
>    # Compilation failed in require at (eval 4) line 2.
>    # BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 4) line 2.
>    Bizarre copy of UNKNOWN in list assignment at /usr/share/perl/5.14/Test/Builder.pm line 942.
>    Attempt to free unreferenced scalar: SV 0x9fd9500, Perl interpreter: 0x9fd9008 at /usr/share/perl/5.14/Test/Builder.pm line 942.
>    # Looks like you planned 40 tests but ran 6.
>    # Looks like you failed 1 test of 6 run.
>    # Looks like your test exited with 255 just after 6.
>    t/HTTPHeaders.t ..
>    Dubious, test returned 255 (wstat 65280, 0xff00)
>    Failed 35/40 subtests
>
> There's no obvious pattern to the set of architectures on which the
> test fails, which includes (linux-)i386 and kfreebsd-amd64 but not
> (linux-)amd64, hurd-i386, or kfreebsd-i386, so I suspect that some
> sort of random factor may be involved; perhaps the C code isn't
> properly initializing some memory contents.  (If so, valgrind may be
> able to help catch the problem.)
>
> Could you please take a look?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
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