[Pkg-net-snmp-devel] Bug#495060: Bug#495060: net-snmp: embedding perl needs PERL_SYS_INIT3()

[Niko Tyni]

On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 06:25:47PM +0200, Jochen Friedrich wrote:
> tags 495060 +upstream
> forwarded 495060 http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2051742&group_id=12694&atid=112694
> thanks

> > As a consequence, the embedded Perl interpreter is most probably
> > broken on the hppa architecture, where PERL_SYS_INIT3() is needed for
> > initializing lock structures. Without this, calling perl_parse() will
> > hang inside pthread_mutex_lock(). See #486069 for more information.
> 
> Unfortunately, I don't have a system to test this, so I forwarded the bug upstream.

If you can give a straightforward recipe for testing the perl support,
I'm sure people on debian-hppa list can help.
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org