It should be noted that in my run, the test suite completed with only
two failures.
Michael

On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 5:16 AM, Lucas Nussbaum
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 15/10/08 at 04:16 -0400, Michael Casadevall wrote:
>> Working with lucas, I've successfully been able to build ruby1.9. The
>> issue is related to NPTL support in the kernel. NPTL on HPPA is
>> extremely unstable it seems, and currently causes anything that uses
>> to threads to go boom under some cirmstances. Some versions of the
>> kernel however appear to work. I had a successful build with a machine
>> with the following uname
>>
>> Linux gsyprf11 2.6.22.19 #1 SMP Sat Apr 5 18:55:33 PDT 2008 parisc64 
>> GNU/Linux
>>
>> The test suite passes successfully, although it does take an extremely
>> long time to build. cpuinfo is as follows:
>>
>> processor     : 0
>> cpu family    : PA-RISC 2.0
>> cpu           : PA8700 (PCX-W2)
>> cpu MHz               : 750.000000
>> model         : 9000/800/A500-7X
>> model name    : Crescendo 750 W2
>> hversion      : 0x00005e30
>> sversion      : 0x00000491
>> I-cache               : 768 KB
>> D-cache               : 1536 KB (WB, direct mapped)
>> ITLB entries  : 240
>> DTLB entries  : 240 - shared with ITLB
>> bogomips      : 1495.04
>> software id   : 824930630
>>
>> processor     : 1
>> cpu family    : PA-RISC 2.0
>> cpu           : PA8700 (PCX-W2)
>> cpu MHz               : 750.000000
>> model         : 9000/800/A500-7X
>> model name    : Crescendo 750 W2
>> hversion      : 0x00005e30
>> sversion      : 0x00000491
>> I-cache               : 768 KB
>> D-cache               : 1536 KB (WB, direct mapped)
>> ITLB entries  : 240
>> DTLB entries  : 240 - shared with ITLB
>> bogomips      : 1495.04
>> software id   : 824930630
>>
>> I uploaded the results to ~ncommander-guest/ruby1.9 on alioth. The
>> 219kb build.log is available. Built with debuild -B -b
>> Michael
>
> Following Michael's steps, I successfully built ruby1.9 on mkhppa3, one
> of Thibaut Varene's boxes, using the following kernel:
> Linux mkhppa3 2.6.22.19 #1 SMP Tue Oct 14 14:22:05 CEST 2008 parisc64
> GNU/Linux
>
> Before that, I tried to build using lenny's 2.6.26. I ran into several
> WARN_ON()s and hard locks, and never managed to build ruby1.9 on hppa
> using lenny's kernel. This kernel is clearly not ready for a release,
> but it's not my call to make...
>
> After the build, ruby's test suite mostly passed (some thread tests just
> blocked, so there's still a problem with threading on hppa). So I had to
> disable it in debian/rules. I think that the status is "good enough" for
> lenny/hppa. And this should allow to build the other missing packages
> too.
>
> Dato, is it fine if I upload those binaries to unstable? How should I
> proceed to make them migrate to testing? I think they will magically
> appear in testing since the source is already in testing, but I'm not
> sure now.
>
> Thanks a lot to Michael for hinting about 2.6.22.19 :-)
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