Re: jemalloc

2013-06-19 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Eero Tamminen dixit: >One possibility would be to replace jemalloc package with just >a header that directs the calls to libc (i.e. on m68k packages >could depend on "jemalloc-dummy" instead). Interesting, but so far, all of the instances of jemalloc I saw bundled a convenience copy of the code a

Re: Log for attempted build of gzip_1.6-1 on m68k (dist=unstable)

2013-06-19 Thread Antonio Diaz Diaz
Paul Eggert wrote: Thanks for confirming it. This prompted me to look at the code again (my! I haven't used Perl in a year and a half! time to brush off some of that rust...) and I found a race condition that could explain the bug. I pushed the following patch; can you please give it a try? S

Re: jemalloc (was Re: Log for attempted build of varnish_3.0.3-1 on m68k (dist=unstable))

2013-06-19 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, On tiistai 18 kesäkuu 2013, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > In case there’s more boredom: > > jemalloc is used by several projects and needs porting, > as it’s apparently architecture-dependent crap… I can’t > imagin why, for a malloc, but… so it is. Jemalloc helps with performance when you have mu

Re: Log for attempted build of gzip_1.6-1 on m68k (dist=unstable)

2013-06-19 Thread Paul Eggert
On 06/19/2013 07:18 AM, Antonio Diaz Diaz wrote: > Thorsten Glaser wrote: >> what do I do to investigate this: >> >> zgrep-signal: set-up failure: signal handling busted on this host >> ERROR: zgrep-signal > > FWIW, I have found this same bug on an i686 machine, with gzip 1.5 and 1.6, > but never

Re: Current and upcoming toolchain changes for jessie

2013-06-19 Thread Carlos O'Donell
On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 8:02 PM, John David Anglin wrote: > Hi Aurelien, > > > On 18-Jun-13, at 6:05 PM, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > >> This is true that they have recently contacted me through another email >> address, but I haven't found time to work on that. Just stay tuned. > > > That's great news

Re: Log for attempted build of gzip_1.6-1 on m68k (dist=unstable)

2013-06-19 Thread Antonio Diaz Diaz
Thorsten Glaser wrote: what do I do to investigate this: zgrep-signal: set-up failure: signal handling busted on this host ERROR: zgrep-signal FWIW, I have found this same bug on an i686 machine, with gzip 1.5 and 1.6, but never found the cause. (My shell is bash). Regards, Antonio. -- T

Re: Current and upcoming toolchain changes for jessie

2013-06-19 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On 14-06-13 21:11, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Wouter, Mikael: input on switching C/C++ to 4.8? We don't have much data either way, do we? I suppose it shouldn't be too much of a problem, but I can't be sure. In the past we've usually taken the plunge, and filed bugs if things go really bad. -- Th