Re: Perl tests

[Neal H. Walfield]

> > > building threads into perl (the new style) fails. The default setup is to
> This is the default debian setup: all extension loaded dynamically.

I do not think the default setup enables threading--perhaps I am
mistaken.  Would you please consider attaching your config.sh file?
This will eliminate much verbage.

> > Could you give some more details on the exact setup that you are using
> > and what type of failures you are experiencing.
> The perl thread tests dump core which I cannot load into gdb.

The core files are useless.  You should be able to load the generated
perl binary into gdb and run the test from there.  Have you tried
this?

> Ie the basic tests fail the second test. Running the tests destabilizes
> whole system (probably because of filesystem activity or stressing
> the crash server).

Writing the core files does something bad to the system.  I have not
yet explored the problem.