Bug#543573: Anybody have a spare sparc machine? (was: Re: Bug#543573: FTBFS: libdevel-declare-perl_0.005011-1 on sparc (dist=unstable))

[Niko Tyni]

On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 05:53:33PM +0300, Damyan Ivanov wrote:

> > Core was generated by `debugperl -Iblib/lib -Iblib/arch t/combi.t'.
> > Program terminated with signal 10, Bus error.
> > #0  0xf7c7dadc in S_scan_str (my_perl=<value optimized out>, offset=13) at stolen_chunk_of_toke.c:716
> > 716     SvGROW(sv, SvCUR(sv) + (PL_bufend - s) + 1);
> > 
> > It works with Perl 5.10.1. A workaround for 5.10.0 is to lower the
> > optimization to -O1.
> 
> Is the lower optimization level required for perl or libdevel-declare-perl?

The latter. See the libjson-xs-perl debian/rules for prior art.
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