Re: SDL Perl freebsd test

Thanks!!!

On 7-Dec-09, at 3:15 PM, Slaven Rezic <[email protected]> wrote:

> Kartik Thakore <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> HI srezic,
>>
>> We have been working hard for FreeBSD + SDL Perl. Can you give this
>> tarball a shot?
>>
>> http://github.com/kthakore/SDL_perl/tarball/8f744c98e5453129862d2505d53fc4ef0a480398
>>
>
> Still no success with SDL-2.3_2. And I did some research and it looks
> like you cannot do much about it.
>
> Still core dumps are produced because of a "bad system call" error:
>
> Program terminated with signal 12, Bad system call.
> ...
> #0  0x000000001fed72ac in ksem_init () from /lib/libc.so.7
> #1  0x000000001fecd8af in sem_init () from /lib/libc.so.7
> #2  0x000000002047504e in SDL_CreateSemaphore () from /usr/local/lib/ 
> libSDL-1.2.so.11
> #3  0x0000000020439732 in SDL_CreateThread () from /usr/local/lib/ 
> libSDL-1.2.so.11
> #4  0x00000000204313bc in SDL_OpenAudio () from /usr/local/lib/ 
> libSDL-1.2.so.11
> #5  0x00000000232056bc in XS_SDL__Audio_open () from /mnt/i386/var/ 
> tmp/CPAN-build/SDL-2.3_2-4IKDAL/blib/arch/auto/SDL/Audio/Audio.so
> #6  0x000000000047e38f in Perl_pp_entersub ()
> #7  0x000000000047cade in Perl_runops_standard ()
> #8  0x000000000042e37a in perl_run ()
> #9  0x000000000041c314 in main ()
>
> Here's a thread which shows a similar problem:
>
>    http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-threads/2009-August/004587.html
>
> The suggestion is too recompile the FreeBSD kernel with the following
> turned on:
>
>    options         P1003_1B_SEMAPHORES
>
> Here's another thread about the issue:
>
>    http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/current/2006-02/msg00385.html
>
> Maybe the issue was already solved in the latest stable FreeBSD  
> release
> (7.2). I am still at 7.0 and won't upgrade for the next time and don't
> have plans to recompile my kernel.
>
> So I can still continue smoking SDL without any chance for success,  
> or I
> can put SDL into my skip list until I upgrade to the next FreeBSD
> version. Whatever you prefer.
>
I have uploaded sdl 2.3_3 which skips these tests unless SDL_BSD_TEST  
is turned on for manual testing. Please continue smoke testing as it  
will help us catch othe freebsd bugs or gripes
> Regards,
>    Slaven
>
thank you,
Kartik Thakore
> -- 
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>
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