On 3/9/07, James Olin Oden <james.oden at gmail.com> wrote: > On 3/9/07, James Olin Oden <james.oden at gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I'm trying to rebuild the version of perl that is in CentOS 4.3 to > > update the version of threads::shared(3pm) that has a serious memory > > leak in it. When I try to build it some of the tests its running fail > > (failure went off my screen but I'll have that in a moment) and it > > failed to build. BTW, I'm building on a CentOS 4.2 system. > > > > So my questions are two fold: > > > > - Does anyone know of any known issues with building the perl SRPM in > > general? > > - Once I have the latest threads::shared in buildable SRPM is there > > an interest > > in picking that up, or is there anyone that would like to put it > > in a repository? > > > Correction I'm building on CentOS 4.3 and I pulled the SRPM from CentOS 4.4. > > The test that is failing is the t/op/pwent test. I'll be looking at > why its failing, but the same questions still apply. > OK, hre is the test error: 1..2 # where NIS passwd # max = 25, n = 14, perfect = 0 # # The failure of op/pwent test is not necessarily serious. # It may fail due to local password administration conventions. # If you are for example using both NIS and local passwords, # test failure is possible. Any distributed password scheme # can cause such failures. # # What the pwent test is doing is that it compares the 26 first # entries of NIS passwd # with the results of getpwuid() and getpwnam() call. If it finds no # matches at all, it suspects something is wrong. # not ok 1 # (not necessarily serious: run t/op/pwent.t by itself) ok 2 So that on is not anyone's problem, save that I have to figure out how to get it to not die...but the situation it reports that would make it not a real bug is the situation on that build server. Anyway, once I have the thing building with the non-leaky thread::shared(3pm) libs, does anyone want to the SRPM (i.e. to host it). Cheers...james