Re: version 2.7.3 crashes on sparc under ruby1.9

[Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>]

Hleb Valoshka <375gnu@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hallo,
> 
> Eric, could you look at this build logs: [1], [2]. I have no idea what
> goes wrong with sparc and, to tell the truth, I've never seen any
> sparc machine (qemu-system-sparc doesn't work with current debian).
> 
> 2.7.3 crashes with ruby 1.9.3.0 and 1.9.3.194 but 2.7.2 was ok with 1.9.3.0 [3].

I doubt the changes from 2.7.2 -> 2.7.3 could've caused crashes, I
suspect something else in the stack (eglibc?) broke between them.

Does 2.7.4 work?

> [1] https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=ruby-kgio&arch=sparc&ver=2.7.3-1&stamp=1343565141
> 
> [2] https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=ruby-kgio&arch=sparc&ver=2.7.3-1&stamp=1331843923
> 1.9.3.0
> 
> [3] https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=ruby-kgio&arch=sparc&ver=2.7.2-1&stamp=1329783946

Hopefully the Debian SPARC maintainers can help narrow this down.  I
suspect other Ruby software has similar failures, too.  It's definitely
low priority for me (and probably you :)).

Somebody who cares about the platform should investigate.

If it makes your life easier, I wouldn't mind at all if you mark kgio as
unsupported on rare Debian platforms.  x86-64/x86 are my main
priorities.