[DRE-maint] Bug#996724: ruby3.0: FTBFS on ppc64el: Segmentation fault

[Antonio Terceiro]

On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 12:59:35PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On 10/18/21 12:51, Antonio Terceiro wrote:
> >> So, we need a backtrace to see where the crash actually happens. I assume it's in one
> >> of the build dependencies.
> > 
> > it happens in glibc:
> > 
> > Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> > 0x00007ffff7a48f04 in kill () from /lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
> 
> Hmm, both were built with glibc 2.32-4.

I don't think we are on the right track here. I need to read the failing
test correctly. this "test case" alone is bogus, as

ruby -e 'END {Process.kill :SEGV, $$}'

is _expected_ to segfault, i.e. the process is sending a SEGV signal to
itself. This test case is not complete.
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