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diff --git a/open_issues/perl.mdwn b/open_issues/perl.mdwn index 45680328..48343e3e 100644 --- a/open_issues/perl.mdwn +++ b/open_issues/perl.mdwn @@ -36,6 +36,56 @@ First, make the language functional, have its test suite pass without errors. [[!inline pages=community/gsoc/project_ideas/perl_python feeds=no]] + +## IRC, OFTC, #debian-hurd, 2011-11-08 + + <Dom> pinotree: so, with your three fixes applied to 5.14.2, there are + still 9 tests failing. They don't seem to be regressions in perl, since + they also fail when I build 5.14.0 (even though the buildd managed it). + <Dom> What do you suggest as the way forward? + <Dom> (incidentally I'm trying on strauss's sid chroot to see how that + compares) + <pinotree> Dom: samuel makes buildds build perl with nocheck (otherwise + we'd have no perl at all) + <pinotree> which tests still fail? + <Dom> ../cpan/Sys-Syslog/t/syslog.t ../cpan/Time-HiRes/t/HiRes.t + ../cpan/autodie/t/recv.t ../dist/IO/t/io_pipe.t ../dist/threads/t/libc.t + ../dist/threads/t/stack.t ../ext/Socket/t/socketpair.t io/pipe.t + op/sigdispatch.t + <Dom> buildds> I see + <pinotree> ah ok, those that are failing for me even with my patches + <Dom> I hadn't spotted that the builds were done with nocheck. + <Dom> (but only sometimes...) + <Dom> Explains a lot + <pinotree> syslog is kind of non-working on hurd, and syslog.t succeeds in + buildds (as opposted to crash the machine...) because there's no /var/log + in chroots + <pinotree> libc.t appears to succeed too in buildds + * Dom notices how little memory strauss has, and cancels the build, now + that he *knows* that running out of memory caused the crahses + <pinotree> iirc HiRes.t, io_pipe.t , pipe.t and sigdispatch.t fails because + of trobules we have with posix signals + <pinotree> socketpair.t is kind of curious, it seems to block on + socketpair()... + * Dom wonders if a wiki page tracking this would be worthwhile + <pinotree> stack.t fails because we cannot set a different size for pthread + stacks, yet (similar failing test cases are also in the python test + suite) + <Dom> if there are problems which aren't going to get resolved any time + soon, it may be worth a few SKIPs conditional on architecture, depending + on how serious the issue is + <Dom> then we'd get better visibility of other/new issues + <Dom> (problems which aren't bugs in perl, that is) + <pinotree> understandable, yes + <pinotree> i think nobody digged much deeper in the failing ones yet, to + actually classify them as due to glibc/hurd/mach + <pinotree> (eg unlike the pipe behaviour in sysconf.t i reported) + +### 2011-11-26 + + <pinotree> cool, my recvfrom() fix also makes the perl test recv.t pass + + --- |