On Tue, Dec 31, 2019 at 10:33:45AM +0100, Branko Čibej wrote: > The OpenBSD buildbot seems to have a 50% chance of failing due to a bus > error deep inside the Ruby runtime (most likely caused by misaligned > memory access). This makes rather less useful than it could be. > > I'm wondering if it would make sense to just skip building and testing > the Ruby bindings there, and perhaps make a separate build configuration > that tests just the Ruby bindings on OpenBSD.
The problem cannot happen during every run. AFAIK it occurs during the build of Ruby itself, not the SVN ruby bindings build or tests. And Ruby itself will only be recompiled if Makefile.svn is changed or the system is rebooted (the build files live in a ramdisk).
