Re: Smoke 18378 aix 4.3.1.0 cc_r 5.0.2.0 (8 cpus)

On Mon 06 Jan 2003 16:12, Jarkko Hietaniemi <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm going to have to disable my single AIX smoke since it just keeps
> failing in Configure and I have no time to debug it now for a few
> weeks at least.  This is the very frustrating failure I get:
> 
> Could not load program ./try:
> 	Dependent module libc.a(shr.o) could not be loaded.
> Could not load module libc.a(shr.o).
> Error was: No such file or directory
>  Unable to configure perl in this configuration
> 
> The "cool" thing?  If I add the option "-x" to this exec...

Maybe Test::Smoke is the module that has yielded the most end-user frustration
after all :) [ well, except for DBD::Oracle maybe, which mostly indicates that
the pooor user /has to/ work with Oracle ]

> ...
> + echo (Feeding myself to /usr/bin/bsh to avoid AIX 4's /bin/sh.)
> + exec /usr/bin/bsh ./Configure -Dusedevel -Duse64bitint -des
> 
> to trace what's going on, the whole following Configure run *FREEZES*
> AND *KILLS* the underlying shell, not in the same spot, but in some
> random spot.  (I'm thankful to be using the screen utility so that I
> can always kill a hang up shell...)  My interactive shell under which
> I was running the Configure really seems to go bye-bye, according to ps.
> All in all, too "cool" for me to debug now.  (Smells like a broken /bin/bsh,
> but I simply don't have the time to play with it now.)
> 
> The final insult to the injury is that *with* threads Configure
> finishes just fine, it's the non-threads, and use64bitint builds
> that hang as described above.

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