status of perl patch working around lack of TLS

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Sun, Jun 05, 2011 at 04:52:09PM +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> Dominic Hargreaves dixit:
> 
> >[please retain Cc to perl at packages.debian.org]
> 
> >Is this still needed? I see some evidence on the Debian ports web
> >pages that TLS is now available.
> 
> There is TLS, yes – but I currently don’t run the testsuite
> when compiling. Once we’ve got a buildd back running, I think
> it will be run though.
> 
> If the test can be run standalone (i.e. without having to
> build a whole Perl source package), please tell me how to
> do so, and I will (I don’t really know Perl, so…).

- DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck debuild -us -uc

- Revert debian/patches/debian/m68k_thread_stress.diff locally
  (only patches the tests, so no rebuild needed)
- ./perl -Ilib dist/threads-shared/t/stress.t
- ./perl -Ilib dist/threads-shared/t/waithires.t

Ought to do it, I think.

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