Re: Problems with extra packages on -current?

["John D. Baker" <jdbaker%mylinuxisp.com@localhost>]

On Mon, 18 Feb 2013, Havard Eidnes wrote:

> I saw this problem on my PPC Mac Mini as well; what I did (if
> memory serves), was to increase the data segment limit to 768M.

Sometimes it can be worked through by simply restarting the build.
The more already-satisfied dependencies there are, the further it
will get.  It may take several restarts.

I'll try raising the data segment limit when I try again.

Donald Lee (dgl) commented on using the perl5 from pkgsrc-2012Q4.
That's what I was trying to build from source (pkgsrc-2012Q4) using
'pkg_rolling-replace' to update the packages I'd last installed around
the 6.99.8 timeframe (since that was the old version of "osabi" that was
updated).

> It can probably be argued that failing in this way is a bug, and
> that bumping into the data segment resource limit should elicit
> a better error message.

It is also interesting that I only have this problem on macppc (so far).
I build lang/perl on other small-resource systems (i386 and sparc) and
have never had it complain.

> As for the other problems you mention, I'm sorry that I don't
> have a suggestion for the root cause of the problem.

As I mentioned, I think I saw the DSI traps and memory faults appear
around 6.99.11.  I cross-build releases on amd64 or i386 and haven't
had trouble with anything in the release sets.  It's only the native-built
stuff from pkgsrc that has trouble.

I've observed the problem on my originial iMac, a Titanium PowerBook G4
and an aluminum PowerBook G4.  I have other new-world Macs to try (a trio
of B&W G3s, and a PowerMac G4 (sawtooth)) but it may take some time.

Also, bisecting code to find the change that precipitated the behavior.

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