Cannot compile working perl on freebsd / amd64

[Mike Hunter]

Hi,

I'm hoping somebody out there has some advice for me.

I cannot compile a working perl binary for freebsd 5.2.1, 5.3, or 6.0 on
amd64. During the `make test` phase it gets into some kind of memory loop
with Config.t: It sits on this test with 99% cpu and ever-increasing memory
until finally runnnig the machine out of ram.

I have the incomplete build sitting in /tmp, and I can envoke lib/Config.t
and get it to do it straight away. kdump (strace on linux) shows it doing
break after break:

23961 perl CALL break(0x1f86000)
23961 perl RET break 0
23961 perl CALL break(0x2254000)
23961 perl RET break 0
23961 perl CALL break(0x1f88000)
23961 perl RET break 0
23961 perl CALL break(0x2258000)
23961 perl RET break 0
23961 perl CALL break(0x1f8a000)
23961 perl RET break 0
23961 perl CALL break(0x225c000)
23961 perl RET break 0
23961 perl CALL break(0x1f8c000)
23961 perl RET break 0
23961 perl CALL break(0x2260000)
23961 perl RET break 0
23961 perl CALL break(0x1f8e000)
23961 perl RET break 0
23961 perl CALL break(0x2264000)
23961 perl RET break 0
23961 perl CALL break(0x1f90000)

I'd really appreciate any advice on how to debug the problem or work around it.

Thanks,

Mike

 

[Tassilo v. Parseval]

Also sprach Mike Hunter:

I'm hoping somebody out there has some advice for me.

I cannot compile a working perl binary for freebsd 5.2.1, 5.3, or 6.0 on
amd64. During the `make test` phase it gets into some kind of memory loop
with Config.t: It sits on this test with 99% cpu and ever-increasing memory
until finally runnnig the machine out of ram.

I have the incomplete build sitting in /tmp, and I can envoke lib/Config.t
and get it to do it straight away. kdump (strace on linux) shows it doing
break after break:

23961 perl CALL break(0x1f86000)
23961 perl RET break 0
23961 perl CALL break(0x2254000)
23961 perl RET break 0

[...]

You should report that to (e-mail address removed) along with the output
of 'perl -V' of this incomplete perl. If that is not possible (because
the build is in fact too incomplete to even run perl -V), include
config.h as generated by Configure in your report.

Tassilo