port perl-threaded-5.10.0.4 fails tests on ia64 SMP

[Marcel Moolenaar]

On Jul 12, 2009, at 3:38 AM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:

> On FreeBSD 8.0-BETA1 ia64 with 2 CPUs
> port lang/perl5.10 built with threads
> fails thread-related tests (full details below)
>
> Failed 8 tests out of 1433, 99.44% okay.
> 	../ext/threads/shared/t/cond.t
> 	../ext/threads/shared/t/stress.t
> 	../ext/threads/t/blocks.t
> 	../ext/threads/t/exit.t
> 	../ext/threads/t/free.t
> 	../ext/threads/t/free2.t
> 	../ext/threads/t/join.t
> 	op/filetest.t
>
> The error message typically is
>
> 	(in cleanup) panic: MUTEX_DESTROY (16) [threads.xs:219] at ...
>
> Please advise


I could reproduce this. The perl 5.8 port has the same issue.
An UP i386 machine passes all tests, I still need to check if
an SMP i386 passes all tests. If yes, then this definitely
looks like an ia64 issue. If not, then it could be a generic
issue with a threaded perl.

FYI,

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