apache pkgsrc binary unstable on NetBSD 5.2

[Donald Lee <MacPPC2%caution.icompute.com@localhost>]

Change of plans....

I tried to do pkgsrc today, and it is clear that that would be a more
substantial investment than I can afford in doing this upgrade.
I have determined that the gem driver is OK in NetBSD 6.0, and that's
what I need in the production machine, and I DO have a test machine
that I can use, so I'm going directly to NetBSD 6.0.1.

FWIW, the packages built for 6.0, as expected, do not appear to have
the stability prolems, or the error messages in the logs.

-dgl-

P.S.  6.0 has a different set of bugs, of course.  The most annoying 
appears to be this:  (minor in the grand scheme of things)

http://blog.julien-oster.de/2013/01/fixing-xterm-256color-with-netbsd.html


On 2/6/13, Donald Lee wrote:
>I've installed the relevant 5.1 packages on my newly upgraded 5.2 test system.
>The OS upgrade - boot from CD, upgrade, reboot - is almost flawless.
>(nice job. ;-> )
>
>Unfortunately, I seem to have hit a bug.  It looks to me like this is the
>one: bug: lib/39986
>
>Symptoms:
>Errors in the apache error log precede a crash and failure of apache.  It
>won't stay up.
>
>>/usr/pkg/lib/php/20090630/zlib.so: Trying to call undefined weak symbol 
>>`__deregister_frame_info'
>
>It looks like this is fixed in 5.2, but there are no package binaries for
>5.2, only 5.1.
>
>I'm still looking for a fix.  An option, in theory, is to re-build those
>misbehaving packages on my 5.2 system.  I have therefore downloaded
>pkgsrc, and am trying to build some, starting with devel/zlib.
>
>When I do "make readme" on pkgsrc, I get tons of these:
>
>Shared object "libarchive.so.3" not found
>Shared object "libarchive.so.3" not found
>Shared object "libarchive.so.3" not found
>Shared object "libarchive.so.3" not found
>Shared object "libarchive.so.3" not found
>Shared object "libarchive.so.3" not found
>Shared object "libarchive.so.3" not found
>Shared object "libarchive.so.3" not found
>Shared object "libarchive.so.3" not found
>Shared object "libarchive.so.3" not found
>Shared object "libarchive.so.3" not found
>Shared object "libarchive.so.3" not found
>Shared object "libarchive.so.3" not found
>Shared object "libarchive.so.3" not found
>Shared object "libarchive.so.3" not found
>Shared object "libarchive.so.3" not found
>Shared object "libarchive.so.3" not found
>Shared object "libarchive.so.3" not found
>test: 20090528: unexpected operator
>Shared object "libarchive.so.3" not found
>Shared object "libarchive.so.3" not found
>Shared object "libarchive.so.3" not found
>test: 20090528: unexpected operator
>Shared object "libarchive.so.3" not found
>Shared object "libarchive.so.3" not found
>Shared object "libarchive.so.3" not found
>Shared object "libarchive.so.3" not found
>
>Am I doing something stupid, or does pkgsrc have some dependency on
>6.0? (I think libarchive.so.3 is in 6.0)
>
>Is it reasonable for me to re-build those packages that are misbehaving
>to fix my apache stability problem, or am I putting effort down
>a rat-hole?
>
>Another fix for me would be to use packages built on 5.2.  Are there plans to
>do that?
>
>Thanks for any help,
>
>-dgl-