On Sun, 9 Nov 2003, Jeff Bailey wrote: > On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 03:49:20PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > > > Update: This does no longer happen with the new perl_5.8.2-1, but now > > there are problems with threads, so I'm considering to ask the perl > > maintainer to disable threads temporarily for GNU/Hurd. After all, > > "ldd perl" on the perl_5.6.1-7 currently in ftp.debian.org does not > > show any traces of being compiled with threads. > > Our pthreads tends to lock the machine solid while running the Perl > testsuite.
Wonderful :-) So, until the Hurd is more robust in this respect we'll better have a perl without threads than no perl at all. Still, there are 19 tests which fail even when threads are disabled. These are the build log and the patch I used to disable threads: http://people.debian.org/~sanvila/ftbfs/perl.build http://people.debian.org/~sanvila/ftbfs/perl.patch What to do with the tests which fail? Any help will be greatly appreciated.
