Bug#370553: ruby1.8: causes subversion testsuite failure on alpha, arm

[Peter Samuelson]

Package: ruby1.8
Version: 1.8.4-2

On alpha and arm, the testsuite for libsvn-ruby1.8 fails.  See for
example:

  http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.php?&pkg=subversion&ver=1.3.2-1&arch=arm&stamp=1149299703&file=log&as=raw

Troy Heber is debugging this on alpha and he reports that rebuilding
ruby1.8 with gcc 4.1 fixes it.  Also, downgrading to ruby1.8 1.8.4-1
fixed it, which I attribute to the fact that this too used a different
version of gcc for the alpha build.  (Nobody has checked whether any of
this is also true on arm.)

We had an identical failure on powerpc a few months ago which was
solved by recompiling ruby1.8 with gcc 4.0.3 instead of 4.0.2.

It seems ruby has some sort of behavior whose correctness depends on
compiler and architecture details.  I haven't tried to reduce the
testcase down to anything simpler than "try building subversion
1.3.2-1".  Though if anyone on the ruby side wishes to look at this in
more detail, you may find my other notes helpful:

  http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-subversion-maintainers/2006-June/000688.html
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