Re: 6.1.4 kernel and Qube2

[Glyn Astill <glynastill%yahoo.co.uk@localhost>]

> From: Markus Kilbinger <mk%kilbi.de@localhost>
> To: Rémi Zara <remi_zara%mac.com@localhost>
> Cc: list NetBSD Cobalt <port-cobalt%netbsd.org@localhost>
> Sent: Saturday, 1 November 2014, 14:29
> Subject: Re: 6.1.4 kernel and Qube2
> 
> 2014-11-01 11:18 GMT+01:00 Rémi Zara <remi_zara%mac.com@localhost>:
> 
>>  I tried stock 6.1.5 on my qube2, but it was not more stable (could not 
> untar pkgsrc)
>> 
>>  I then tried current (NetBSD 7.99.1 (GENERIC.201410221550Z)) and this one 
> is a winner (up 8 days, /etc/daily not panicing the machine as before) !
>> 
>>  Except for one thing : I cannot get perl 5.20.1 (the current version in 
> pkgsrc) compiled, which is unfortunate since many other package have a 
> dependency on perl5 >= 5.20
>> 
>>  It fails, not always at the same stage, with a perl error of the form 
> "panic: memory wrap at lib/Pod/Simple/BlackBox.pm line 213"
>> 
>>  Changing dataseg size limit seems to move the failure point.
>> 
>>  Has anybody succeeded in compiling this version of perl on a Qube2 ?
> 
> 1. I can confirm this problem on/for my qube2 under -current and
> netbsd-7 (gcc 4.8 related? Under netbsd-6 / gcc 4.5 I can't remember
> such problem).
> 
> 2. I could work around this problem by adding (disabling
> 'usemallocwrap' for perl compilation)
> 
>   CONFIGURE_ARGS+=       -Uusemallocwrap
> 
> to pkgsrc/lang/perl5/options.mk.
> The resulting perl package / binary seems to run somehow (didn't
> (stress) tested it).
> 
> Couldn't find this as a 'known bug' searching the inet though ...
> 
> Markus.

> 


Did anyone get 6.1.x or 7.x running reasonably stable?  


Just wondering if it's worth upgrading from 5.2.3.