Bug#595397: libsys-sigaction-perl: FTBFS on armel, unsupported

[Niko Tyni]

clone 595397 -1
reassign -1 perl 5.10.1-14
retitle -1 perl: POSIX::sigaction breakage on armel
severity -1 important
thanks

On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 08:29:38PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> Package: libsys-sigaction-perl
> Version: 0.11-1
> Severity: serious
> X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-arm at lists.debian.org

> if ( $Config{archname} =~ m/armv5tejl/ ) {
>    die q{
> 
>    Sys::SigAction is not supported on armv5tejl systems.
>    I have communicated with the smoke tester on this OS, 
>    and we believe that the base perl implementation of 
>    POSIX:sigaction is probably the root cause.
> 
>    if you want to use this module anyway, or work on getting
>    it supported by fixing the perl port, you can uncomment out
>    this section of Makefile.PL to build Sys::SigAction.
> 
>    Lincoln
>    };
> }

> As Sys::SigAction is a pure perl module, I agree the bug is most probably
> in POSIX::sigaction in the perl package. I'll clone a bug about that next.

Doing that now.
 
> However, I don't think this should be considered a release critical issue
> for the perl package (the 'important' severity is about right IMO). I'm
> afraid it's quite possible that POSIX::sigaction can't be fixed in time
> for squeeze.
> 
> debian-arm: would somebody like to look into this?

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