On 3/9/07, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote: > James Olin Oden 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. > > Is this something that is already fixed in the centosplus 5.8.8 version? > Maybe you can just enable the repository and use yum to update perl > (and httpd if you want a working mod_perl). > Hmmm...ignorant me did not know of CentOS plus. I'll check and let you find out. I'm glad I sent the email, no matter how embarasing. I'll let you know if the fixed threads::shared library is in it. Thanks...james