[CentOS-devel] Re: Building perl (and perl threads memory leak)...

Fri Mar 9 18:51:39 UTC 2007
James Olin Oden <james.oden at gmail.com>

On 3/9/07, James Olin Oden <james.oden at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
Its using the same broken leaky version of threads::shared(3pm).

Cheers...james