Hi, Ruby 1.9.3 is going to be released in september, and is a candidate for the default ruby version in wheezy. A snapshot is available in experimental. Now is an ideal time to work on porting issues and get the fixes integrated upstream. Ruby has a fairly large test suite, which makes finding problems easy, but exercises the threading library in interesting ways.
Most of the issues are reproducible by re-building the Debian package. Use make && make test to get a shorter build. Here is the current complete list of issues I'm aware of. My time will be very limited in the coming weeks, but I will try my best to provide help. [armel,sparc] FTBFS due to miscompilation with -ftree-sra (inc. in -O3). See http://bugs.debian.org/635126. Currently worked-around by using -fno-tree-sra. Other packages might be affected. -> FIXED from ruby1.9.1's POV, but you really want to look at this for other packages. [armel] I've just seen that now that this one is fixed, the test suite segfaults. See https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=ruby1.9.1&arch=armel&ver=1.9.3~preview1%2Bsvn33077-1&stamp=1314634969 search for 'TestFiber#test_many_fibers'. 'make test-all' to reproduce. Failures during test-all are currently not fatal. The remaining ones needs more investigation, but I don't think that they are arch-specific. I'd like to make test-all failures fatal at some point. [sparc] continuations are completely broken. See http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/5244 (minimal test case included) [ia64] crashes during test suite, linked to continuations according to backtrace. See http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/5246. 'make test' to reproduce. Might be related to the sparc problem above. [kfreebsd] waitpid from threads problem http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/5239 http://bugs.debian.org/639658 Will add a patch in test suite runner to work-around this -> FIXED from ruby1.9.1's POV. [kfreebsd] mmap() with MAP_STACK requires non-null first arg http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/5241 http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=158755 patch will be applied upstream, added to Debian package in the meantime -> FIXED from ruby1.9.1's POV. [kfreebsd] thread-related hangs http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/5240 bisected the upstream commit. Petr Salinger working on a fix, see http://lists.debian.org/debian-bsd/2011/08/msg00180.html I've just uploaded (to experimental) a new version fixing the issues marked FIXED. Thanks! - Lucas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bsd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110829214834.ga2...@xanadu.blop.info
