[Pkg-parrot-devel] parrot FTBS on ia64 mipsel and sparc
Alessandro Ghedini
al3xbio at gmail.com
Sun Apr 15 15:19:41 UTC 2012
On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 08:28:32PM -0400, Andy Dougherty wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Apr 2012, Allison Randal wrote:
>
> > On 04/14/2012 10:18 PM, Alessandro Ghedini wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I've just noticed that parrot 4.0.0 fails to build from source on ia64 mipsel
> > > and sparc [0] with the same "Bus error" when calling:
> > >
> > >> ./miniparrot -Iruntime/parrot/include config_lib.pir > runtime/parrot/include/config.fpmc
> > >
> > > and I can reproduce the failures in the respective porterboxes (I've tried
> > > smetana.d.o for sparc and eder.d.o for mipsel). The same happens with the
> > > latest revision in the upstream git repository.
> >
> > Bus error is a memory handling error. Is there a way that I or others
> > can get access to the porter boxes?
>
> This sounds like the same problem I reported last year (on Solaris/SPARC);
> it's issue #603:
>
> https://github.com/parrot/parrot/issues/603
>
> There's a hacky patch that works around the problem included with that
> issue. Unfortunately, the github migration messed up the patch so it no
> longer applies, but there should be a link back to the old version on Trac
> which might apply, unless Parrot has changed too much in the meantime.
I've "manually applied" (that is, copy-pasting the changes) that patch, and
indeed fixes the issue on all the three architectures. Though I see some test
failures, not sure if related to this change.
> Test Summary Report
> -------------------
> t/dynpmc/gziphandle.t (Wstat: 0 Tests: 15 Failed: 2)
> Failed tests: 5-6
> t/dynpmc/select.t (Wstat: 0 Tests: 14 Failed: 0)
> TODO passed: 14
> Files=395, Tests=14051, 666 wallclock secs ( 5.12 usr 0.47 sys + 587.46 cusr 31.51 csys = 624.56 CPU)
> Result: FAIL
> make: *** [test_core] Error 1
The patch I've used is attached.
Cheers
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