suse-11.2: tcl threads, pydoc -g fix

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#1

$ pydoc -g
dies with the last words:
“TclError: out of stack space (infinite loop?)”

This error may indicate that tcl has been compiled without thread support:
http://bugs.python.org/issue3835#msg73304

Solution:
Download tcl-8.5.7-4.6.src.rpm from the “standard” repo.
(download.opensuse.org/source/distribution/11.2/repo/oss/suse/src/)

rpm -ivh tcl-8.5.7-4.6.src.rpm

vi tcl.spec

(1) add “http-4.15” to the “known-failures” list (line# 111)
(2) fix the typo on line# 93: should be
“–enable-threads”,
rather than “–enable-treads”
(3) line# 104 (“instrumentation for profiling”):
replace with PFLAGS=""

rpmbuild -bb --clean tcl.cpec

rpm -Uvh --force tcl-8.5.7-4.6.x86_64.rpm

Reasons for the changes:
(r1) test “http-4.15” fails since my isp screws DNS queries and “no_such_host” is redirected to earthlink-help.
(r2) obvious typo
(r3) buggy gcc-4.4 optimizer fails with
“error: corrupted profile info…”, - every time in different files.
see http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=38292

After the fix “pydoc -g” works fine.

> uname -a
2.6.31.5-0.1-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT 2009-10-26 15:49:03 +0100 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

#2

Hello,

I have the same problem with OpenSuse 11.4.
I tried the modification above and I have the following error

Tests ended at Tue Feb 14 15:59:05 CET 2012
all.tcl:        Total   24550   Passed  23280   Skipped 1269    Failed  1
Sourced 137 Test Files.
Files with failing tests: unixInit.test
Number of tests skipped for each constraint:
        9       !ieeeFloatingPoint
        3       asyncPipeChan
        76      bigEndian
        5       bug-3057639
        1       dontCopyLinks
        59      emptyTest
        2       hasIsoLocale
        1       impossible
        30      knownBug
        2       largefileSupport
        100     localeRegexp
        50      longIs32bit
        14      macosxFileAttr
        17      memory
        40      nonPortable
        265     notRoot
        8       nt
        1       testWinCPUID
        7       testaccessproc
        1       testexprparser && !ieeeFloatingPoint
        8       testopenfilechannelproc
        7       teststatproc
        1       testwinclock
        21      testwordend
        3       unknownFailure
        2       unthreaded
        2       wideBiggerThanInt
        523     win
+ grep FAILED testresults
+ grep -Fqvwf known-failures
+ exit 1
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.sT4JIG (%build)


RPM build errors:
    Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.sT4JIG (%build)

Some Informations
uname -r : 2.6.37.6-0.11-desktop
tcl-8.5.9-2.11.x86_64
gcc-4.5-19.1.x86_64

#3

I tried with the last tcl-8.5.11-40.1.src.rpm
version from /repositories/devel:/languages:/tcl/openSUSE_11.4
and I have the following errors

Tests ended at Tue Feb 14 17:34:11 CET 2012
all.tcl:        Total   27009   Passed  25732   Skipped 1272    Failed  5
Sourced 137 Test Files.
Files with failing tests: env.test httpold.test unixInit.test
Number of tests skipped for each constraint:
        9       !ieeeFloatingPoint
        3       asyncPipeChan
        76      bigEndian
        5       bug-3057639
        1       dontCopyLinks
        59      emptyTest
        2       hasIsoLocale
        1       impossible
        1       knownBadTest
        30      knownBug
        2       largefileSupport
        100     localeRegexp
        50      longIs32bit
        14      macosxFileAttr
        17      memory
        40      nonPortable
        265     notRoot
        8       nt
        1       testWinCPUID
        7       testaccessproc
        1       testexprparser && !ieeeFloatingPoint
        8       testopenfilechannelproc
        7       teststatproc
        1       testwinclock
        21      testwordend
        3       unknownFailure
        2       unthreaded
        2       wideBiggerThanInt
        523     win
        2       win2000orXP
+ grep -Fqvwf known-failures
+ grep FAILED testresults
+ exit 1
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.L6imTf (%build)


RPM build errors:
    Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.L6imTf (%build)

Someone have an idea ?

#4

On 02/14/2012 05:46 PM, fchaudier wrote:
>
> I tried with the last tcl-8.5.11-40.1.src.rpm
> version from /repositories/devel:/languages:/tcl/openSUSE_11.4
> and I have the following error

your subject line says suse-11.2 and the above line says openSUSE 11.4

since there is no “suse-11.2” i have to wonder exactly what operating
system and version you are using…

return the terminal output from this command please:
cat /etc/SuSE-release

and also please describe you level of expertise with Linux and
openSUSE…thanks

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DD
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#5

On 02/14/2012 05:46 PM, fchaudier wrote:
> I tried with the last tcl-8.5.11-40.1.src.rpm
> --------------------
> Tests ended at Tue Feb 14 17:34:11 CET 2012

it is not at all clear to me what you have done:
-what kind of “Tests ended”?
-what was the command which kicked off these “tests”?
-were the ‘tests’ performed on the rpm or using whatever is in the rpm?
-what is in the RPM? what is the name of the application, and what it
supposed to do?

what kind of ‘test’ results were you expecting?

is what you are showing us the output of an attempt to build a package
from source?

if so, show us both your command inputs (from the first character of the
prompt and all the out puts until the last character of the waiting
prompt) all inside of code tags…

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