Hi!
I've been working with a couple of friends (Damián Viano and Martín
Ferrari), in trying to fix this bug. We've built perl in an hppa machine
and use that build to test the following things.
This line:
./perl -le 'print unpack("%53c*", pack "c*", -1);'
can be used to test the problem (it's taken from one of the failing tests).
Doing the normal build ($ debuild), we got these results:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/perl-5.8.8$ perl -le 'print unpack("%53c*", pack "c*", -1);'
9.00719925474099e+15
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/perl-5.8.8$ ./perl -le 'print unpack("%53c*", pack "c*",
-1);'
0
After that, we decided to try to build without optimization and stripping
($ DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=noopt,nostrip fakeroot debian/rules binary) and the
package built successfully ("All tests successful").
Also, we got these results:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/perl-5.8.8$ perl -le 'print unpack("%53c*", pack "c*", -1);'
9.00719925474099e+15
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/perl-5.8.8$ ./perl -le 'print unpack("%53c*", pack "c*",
-1);'
9.00719925474099e+15
We didn't really intend this to happen, we only wanted to be able to follow
the calls to the functions in a gdb session, but this came out as a result
of the build.
I guess stripping is not at fault, what only leaves the -O0 instead of -O2
as the possible difference.
Also, in Gentoo perl builds fine with gcc-4.1 in hppa, therefore we suspect
that the problem is either in a patch that we are applying, or in a patch
that they are applying and we are not.
We are still working on it. Just wanted to share our progress.
--
Love,
Marga
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