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Re: Solaris 8: runaway processes in check


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: Solaris 8: runaway processes in check
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 16:29:12 -0700
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Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> writes:

> Another way to provoke the runaway is to
>   env TESTS='../../../coreutils-5.96/tests/misc/sort' make -e check
>
> but it doesn't happen with GNU make.  

I can reproduce the problem even with GNU make (3.80).

My guess is that it's something about Solaris 8 perl.  It's perl
5.00503.  Perhaps coreutils-5.96/tests/misc/sort makes some assumption
about Perl that isn't true for that old version?

Is there some easy way to debug this at the Perl level?




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