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

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

On 10/18/21 13:16, Antonio Terceiro wrote:
> 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.

It might be an idea to look at the Fedora package:

> https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/ruby/blob/rawhide/f/ruby.spec

It has a number of patches against 3.x:

> https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/ruby/tree/rawhide

It builds fine on ppc64el:

> https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=1801321

OTOH, ruby3.0 builds fine in openSUSE Factory on ppc64el, but they're still at
version 3.0.1, so it might be an issue that will only show with 3.0.2?

> https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/openSUSE:Factory:PowerPC/ruby3.0

Adrian

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