[Pkg-tcltk-devel] Bug#488684: Bug#488684: tcl8.5: testsuite failures in db and db4.6 packages due to tclsh8.5 (GNU/kFreeBSD)

[Sergei Golovan]

On 6/30/08, Petr Salinger <Petr.Salinger at seznam.cz> wrote:
>  Hi,
>
>  the current version of db and db4.6 fails to build on GNU/kFreeBSD
>  due to testsuite failure. It fails since move from tcl8.4 to tcl8.5.
>  I tested build against tcl8.4-dev, in this case db package
>  passes testsuite.
>
>  So the problem is in tcl8.5, unfortunately I do not speak tcl.

I can reproduce these crashes using kfreebsd in QEMU. Though even if I
use custom Tcl 8.5 build with symbols enabled I can't see anything
meaningful in a dumped core (using GDB). So, I can't immediately tell
what's wrong. I'm going to investigate further.

-- 
Sergei Golovan