Re: please do something about failing smokes

[email protected] (Enache Adrian)
Newsgroups perl.perl5.porters,perl.daily-build,perl.daily-build.reports
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sun, Apr 13, 2003 at 11:56:08PM -0700, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 12:49:27AM +0300, Enache Adrian wrote:
> > netbsd      [stdio/perlio]-DDEBUGGING [email protected]
> >               (cont) -Dcc=/usr/local/bin/gcc -Darchname=i386-netbsd
> >               (cont) -Duseithreads -Duseshrplib
> >     ext/POSIX/t/posix....................FAILED at test 10
> > 
> > Will this work ?
> 
> That doesn't fix the problem, it just quiets the test.  It also seems to
> contradict the comment.  Or at least its highly discouraging that NetBSD 1.5
> would work and 1.6 wouldn't.

How to fix the problem in Perl ?

It's ( at least in FreeBSD ) an OS bug - more precisely a libc_r bug -
which I have demonstrated with a little C test program and for which
I opened PR 49087.

Regards
Adi
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