[Pkg-db-devel] Bug#437709: marked as done (/usr/sbin/dhelp_parse: /usr/lib/libdb-4.5.so: no version information available (required by /usr/sbin/dhelp_parse))

Clint Adams schizo at debian.org
Sun Oct 7 18:55:38 UTC 2007


On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 08:19:57PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> It seems to me that your mutex change on hppa somehow disabled shared
> environments, so if you fix that, it might make sense to enable the test
> suite again, at least for one upload.  (The lack of shared environment
> support might well be RC. *sigh* [1])

Right, we either need someone to investigate what's going on with the
asm mutexes or to fix NPTL.

> I'm not completely sure that the buildds will pick up the new version
> unless there is a proper dependency.  The issue would have gone away
> eventually, when all the reverse dependencies have been rebuilt, but
> there is no way to count on that.  At the very least, it's now apparent
> from the Packages file if something has been built with the correct
> version, so we can actually ask the release team to sort this out using
> bin-NMUs.

Fair enough.

> [1] Turns out that the following two calls fail in the pthreads test
> case:
> 
> pthread_condattr_setpshared(&condattr, PTHREAD_PROCESS_SHARED)
> pthread_mutexattr_setpshared(&mutexattr, PTHREAD_PROCESS_SHARED)
> 
> IOW, mutexes may not cross process boundaries.  This is a libc bug, I
> suppose.

While nagging people about this, I have heard a rumor that Carlos is going
to fix this before lenny is released.



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