Re: zsh (4.2.0-10)

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

"Christian T. Steigies" <cts@debian.org> writes:

> On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 12:06:04PM -0400, Clint Adams wrote:
>> > Oups... I tried it locally, ran top in one shell, SIGSTOP (and also STOP)
>> > stop the process like ctrl-z. With SIGCONT or CONT it somehow starts again,
>> > but not for very long. Is this really supposed to work?
>> 
>> As I recall, if you kill the right process with a SIGTERM or something,
>> then send SIGCONT to the remaining processes, it will proceed to the
>> other tests and complete the build successfully.
>> 
>> > Yes. I was wondering, too. The previous build worked out fine, it was built
>> > on a different box. I also had zsh-beta a couple of times and zsh_4.2.0-7 on
>> > my mac without problems, so maybe its something fancy with the Amiga? I got
>> > an ICE while building gcc-snapshot on the Amiga where a mac crashed only
>> > much later. Should I try to build it on another box? Currently we have some
>> > CPU cycles to kill on m68k, I'll just try t build it on my mac.
>> 
>> I find it curious that only sbuild exposes this problem, and now that
>> it's manifesting on multiple architectures, I have even less of an idea
>> of what the problem could be.
>> 
>> I wonder if a simple perl script which merely did the same signal handling as
>> sbuild and ran zsh's make check would give the same result.
>
> I don't think it's sbuild's fault, after all it only installes/deinstalls
> packages and then calls dpkg-buildpackage.
> But the interesting thing is, it now built fine on my mac. The significant
> differences between those machines are, the amiga has an 68060 processor,
> while the mac has an 68040. The amiga runs linux-2.4.26, while the mac runs
> linux-2.2.26.
>
> Either I had too many cosmic rays from work in my pocket, or we have a
> problem hiding in 060 or linux-2.4 support on m68k. Does somebody want to
> build gcc-snapshot on anon 060 machine?

See BTS. With kernel 2.2.10 on my Amiga 68060 it fails with a normal
error real early. No ICE or any.

> Or maybe I am completely wrong, an easy test would be if somebody tried to
> build zsh on another 060 machine to see if it hangs during the tests too.
>
> Christian

Zsh build fine on Amiga: debuild -B -us -uc -m"Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>"

A4000T 68040@50MHz 96Mb ram
Linux a4000 2.2.10 #1 Mon Nov 27 20:50:14 CET 2000 m68k GNU/Linux

sid chroot with proc mounted and small /dev

mrvn@a4000:~% ls /mnt/chroot/sid/dev
MAKEDEV@  dsp1      loop4   midi1       port   ram14  ram9       smpte3
agpgart   dsp2      loop5   midi2       ptmx   ram15  random     sndstat
audio     dsp3      loop6   midi3       pts/   ram16  rmidi0     tty
audio1    full      loop7   mixer       ram@   ram2   rmidi1     tty0
audio2    initctl|  mem     mixer1      ram0   ram3   rmidi2     urandom
audio3    kmem      midi0   mixer2      ram1   ram4   rmidi3     zero
audioctl  loop0     midi00  mixer3      ram10  ram5   sequencer
console   loop1     midi01  mpu401data  ram11  ram6   smpte0
core@     loop2     midi02  mpu401stat  ram12  ram7   smpte1
dsp       loop3     midi03  null        ram13  ram8   smpte2

mrvn@a4000:~% gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 3.3.3 (Debian 20040429)

mrvn@a4000:~% ld --version
GNU ld version 2.14.90.0.7 20031029 Debian GNU/Linux

mrvn@a4000:~% as --version 
GNU assembler 2.14.90.0.7 20031029 Debian GNU/Linux

mrvn@a4000:~/zsh% cat *changes
Format: 1.7
Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 09:22:36 -0400
Source: zsh
Binary: zsh zsh-static zsh-doc
Architecture: m68k
Version: 4.2.0-10
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>
Changed-By: Clint Adams <schizo@debian.org>
Description:
 zsh        - A shell with lots of features
 zsh-static - A shell with lots of features (static link)
Changes:
 zsh (4.2.0-10) unstable; urgency=medium
 . 
   * ZW#19921: fix for ZW#19920.
   * ZW#19877: fix for ZW#19869.
   * ZW#19878: fix for ZW#19877.
   * ZW#19893: fix the potential for an infinite loop in history locking.
Files:
 14ad54d8f01446c4b5bea411cb059591 1922336 shells optional zsh_4.2.0-10_m68k.deb
 21f97d44023fee096daa0652418bc191 552574 shells optional zsh-static_4.2.0-10_m68k.deb



Now we need someone with 2.4 + 040 and amiga + 2.4 to test.

MfG
        Goswin