Bug#554223: perl: FTBFS on mips: Test process timed out

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:05:39AM +0200, Niko Tyni wrote:
> severity 554223 important
> thanks
> 
> On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 09:57:08PM +0200, Niko Tyni wrote:
> > Package: perl
> > Version: 5.10.1-6
> > Severity: serious
> > 
> > perl/5.10.1-6 failed to build on mips/mayr:
> > 
> >  https://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?pkg=perl;ver=5.10.1-6;arch=mips;stamp=1256781334
> > 
> > ext/threads-shared/t/waithires................................# Test process timed out - terminating
> > FAILED--expected 57 tests, saw 32
> 
> 5.10.1-7 built OK on the same buildd with no related source changes.
> 
> > The timeout is 60 seconds, and it's possible that we should raise it.
> 
> The test takes less than a second on my i386 host, so it seems very
> improbable that it would have succeeded with a longer timeout.
> 
> There's no DD-accessible mips box currently AFAICS, so there's little I
> can do about this. Cc'ing the debian-mips list. 
> 
> Can anybody reproduce this, either with the separate
> libthreads-shared-perl package or perl itself?

Given the silence, and lack of another instance of this in more than
two years in buildd logs, I think we should close this bug. Is that
okay with you?

Cheers,
Dominic.

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