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Aug 15, 2008, 7:23 AM
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Re: Bug#495075: wackamole: embedding perl needs PERL_SYS_INIT3()
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On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 01:52:53PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> Package: wackamole
> Version: 2.1.1-3.1
> Severity: important
> User: debian-perl [at] lists
> Usertags: perl-sys-init3
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> As described in the 'perlembed' document, programs embedding Perl
> must use the PERL_SYS_INIT3() and PERL_SYS_TERM() macros to provide
> system-specific tune up of the C runtime environment necessary to run
> Perl interpreters.
>
> Your package has been identified as failing this:
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> - at least one of the binary packages built from the source depends
> on libperl5.10
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> - the unpacked source matches 'perl_parse' but not 'PERL_SYS_INIT3'
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> As a consequence, the embedded Perl interpreter is most probably
> broken on the hppa architecture, where PERL_SYS_INIT3() is needed for
> initializing lock structures. Without this, calling perl_parse() will
> hang inside pthread_mutex_lock(). See #486069 for more information.
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> Cheers,
> --
> Niko Tyni ntyni [at] debian
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Kind Regards,
Michael Mende
http://www.menole.net/
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