Bug#359909: subversion: FTBFS: Ruby test fails

[Daniel Schepler]

Le Vendredi 31 Mars 2006 10:59, Peter Samuelson a écrit :
> [Daniel Schepler]
>
> >   1) Error:
> > test_apply(SvnDeltaTest):
> > ArgumentError: NULL pointer given
>
> Since you can reproduce this bug and I can't, could you please test a
> patch?  Simply replace the file debian/patches/swig-1.3.28.patch with
> the attached file and rebuild, and let us know whether it makes a
> difference.
>
> (Basically it adds some swig updates from subversion 1.3.1 and some
> more which are proposed for 1.3.2.  I do not know whether this bundle
> of patches is supposed to fix this issue, and the SWIG code is
> sufficiently hairy that I can't tell.)

The patch didn't help.  After some more investigation, I found that installing 
official i386 ruby1.8 packages fixed the test failure, and in fact if I 
rebuild ruby1.8 locally adding "-fno-strict-aliasing" to the CFLAGS, the 
rebuilt packages also fix the test failure.  So this looks like it's a bug in 
ruby with bad code violating the strict-aliasing rules.  (And you should 
probably be able to reproduce the bug if you wish by rebuilding ruby1.8 and 
installing the resulting packages.)

So I guess we should either reassign this to ruby1.8, or file a new bug and 
block this one with the new one.
-- 
Daniel Schepler