pkg/54155: lang/perl5 configure busy-loops testing stack size

[Hauke Fath <hf%spg.tu-darmstadt.de@localhost>]

>Number:         54155
>Category:       pkg
>Synopsis:       lang/perl5 configure busy-loops testing stack size
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    pkg-manager
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Fri May 03 10:25:00 +0000 2019
>Originator:     Hauke Fath
>Release:        NetBSD 7.2_STABLE
>Organization:
Technische Universitaet Darmstadt
>Environment:
	
	
System: NetBSD Nebelstein 7.2_STABLE NetBSD 7.2_STABLE (XEN3PAE_DOMU) #1: Tue Apr 30 13:29:53 CEST 2019 hf@Hochstuhl:/var/obj/netbsd-builds/7/i386/sys/arch/i386/compile/XEN3PAE_DOMU i386
Architecture: i386
Machine: i386
>Description:

	on a netbsd-7 i386 xen domu, a perl build busy-loops in
	configure, trying to determine the max. stack size:

[...]
Extracting xsubpp (with variable substitutions)
../miniperl -I../lib pod2html.PL
Extracting pod2html (with variable substitutions)
../miniperl -I../lib zipdetails.PL
Extracting zipdetails (with variable substitutions)
cd dist/Storable ; LDLIBPTH=LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/var/obj/pkgsrc/lang/perl5/work/perl-5.28.2 /usr/bin/make lib/Storable/Limit.pm
/var/obj/pkgsrc/lang/perl5/work/perl-5.28.2/dist/Storable/../../miniperl "-I../../lib" -MExtUtils::Command -e 'mkpath' -- ../../lib
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/var/obj/pkgsrc/lang/perl5/work/perl-5.28.2 "../../perl" "-I../../lib" "-I../../lib" stacksize --core
probe for max. stack sizes...
load: 1.96  cmd: perl 5601 [0xbb38f5a0] 2.63u 72.51s 95% 10412k
make: Working in: /var/obj/pkgsrc/lang/perl5/work/perl-5.28.2
make[1]: Working in: /var/obj/pkgsrc/lang/perl5/work/perl-5.28.2/dist/Storable
make: Working in: /amd/hochstuhl/public/pkgsrc/lang/perl5
make[1]: Working in: /amd/hochstuhl/public/pkgsrc/lang/perl5


% ps axj | grep perl
netdisco  27946     1  5520 db85a8    0 S    ?           0:06.11 perl: netdisco: admin daemon 
hf          204  9516  9505 31f988    1 I+   pts/0       0:00.03 ../../perl -I../../lib -I../../lib stacksize --core 
hf         5601 20834  9505 31f988    1 R+   pts/0    1079:55.66 ../../perl -I../../lib/auto -I../../lib -MStorable=dclone -emy $t; $Storable::recursion_limit = -1; 
hf         9516 14137  9505 31f988    1 I+   pts/0       0:00.00 /bin/sh -c LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/var/obj/pkgsrc/lang/perl5/work/perl-5.28.2 "../../perl" "-I../../lib" "-
hf        16205 18856  9505 31f988    1 I+   pts/0       0:00.00 /bin/sh -c set -e;\t\t\t\t\t\t cd /var/obj/pkgsrc/lang/perl5/work/perl-5.28.2 && cd /var/obj/pkgsrc/
hf        20834   204  9505 31f988    1 I+   pts/0       0:00.00 sh -c ulimit -c 0 ;  LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/var/obj/pkgsrc/lang/perl5/work/perl-5.28.2/dist/Storable/../..
hf        23421  9505  9505 31f988    1 I+   pts/0       0:00.00 /bin/sh -c set -e;\t\t\t\t\t if test -n "" &&  /usr/pkg/sbin/pkg_info -K /var/db/pkg -qe perl-5.28.2
hf        29319 24243  9505 31f988    1 I+   pts/0       0:00.00 /bin/sh -c cd dist/Storable ; LDLIBPTH=LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/var/obj/pkgsrc/lang/perl5/work/perl-5.28.2 /
hf        17531 22207 15830 c0a970    2 S+   pts/3       0:00.00 grep perl 
%

	Killing the process in question will lead configure to re-try
	with a different value, but it never completes.

	
>How-To-Repeat:

	Build lang/perl5 on netbsd-7 i386 xen. Does not appear to
	happen on a netbsd-7 i386 native installation.

	
>Fix:

	No idea...

	

>Unformatted: