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

[Niko Tyni]

On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 01:44:23PM -0400, 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.

> 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.)

Looks like at least some of the failures are due to the well known
CCFLAGS override bug discussed in
 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=68613
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org