Re: 6.1.4 kernel and Qube2

> From: Markus Kilbinger <[email protected]>
> To: R=C3=A9mi Zara <[email protected]>
> Cc: list NetBSD Cobalt <[email protected]>
> Sent: Saturday, 1 November 2014, 14:29
> Subject: Re: 6.1.4 kernel and Qube2
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> 2014-11-01 11:18 GMT+01:00 R=C3=A9mi Zara <[email protected]>:
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>>  I tried stock 6.1.5 on my qube2, but it was not more stable (could not=
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> untar pkgsrc)
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>>  I then tried current (NetBSD 7.99.1 (GENERIC.201410221550Z)) and this o=
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> is a winner (up 8 days, /etc/daily not panicing the machine as before) !
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>>  Except for one thing : I cannot get perl 5.20.1 (the current version in=
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> pkgsrc) compiled, which is unfortunate since many other package have a=20
> dependency on perl5 >=3D 5.20
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>>  It fails, not always at the same stage, with a perl error of the form=
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> "panic: memory wrap at lib/Pod/Simple/BlackBox.pm line 213"
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>>  Changing dataseg size limit seems to move the failure point.
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>>  Has anybody succeeded in compiling this version of perl on a Qube2 ?
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> 1. I can confirm this problem on/for my qube2 under -current and
> netbsd-7 (gcc 4.8 related? Under netbsd-6 / gcc 4.5 I can't remember
> such problem).
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> 2. I could work around this problem by adding (disabling
> 'usemallocwrap' for perl compilation)
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>   CONFIGURE_ARGS+=3D       -Uusemallocwrap
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> to pkgsrc/lang/perl5/options.mk.
> The resulting perl package / binary seems to run somehow (didn't
> (stress) tested it).
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> Couldn't find this as a 'known bug' searching the inet though ...
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> Markus.

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Did anyone get 6.1.x or 7.x running reasonably stable? =20


Just wondering if it's worth upgrading from 5.2.3.