Re: [Ltib] too many processes!

[Stuart Hughes]

Hi Rob,

I was going to try to replicate this, but when I download
agg-2.5.tar.gz, the resulting download file seems to be truncated:

$ tar ztf agg-2.5.tar.gz
agg-2.5/
agg-2.5/libagg.pc.in
....
agg-2.5/autom4te.cache/output.0

gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

Can you check the upload?, also the .md5 sum is the tarfile.

Once this test case is in place, I'll try it out.

Regards, Stuart

Rob Savoye wrote:
>   So I'm having a weird build problem I'm hoping somebody can help with.
> I've seen this behavior on three machines, all running different
> distributions. Basically while building some applications, I get many,
> many thousands of of processes started. This is often thousands of
> pkg-config, or glib-config processes. It keeps spawning them till the
> machine locks up.
> 
>   A simple way to reproduce this is to grab the agg.spec file and
> tarball from http://wiki.gnashdev.org/Building_for_ltib. ./ltib -p agg
> will spawn bash shells till the machine is wedged. I've compiled this
> exact source tarball on many other ARM based platforms, and with the
> same compiler version, so I don't think it's toolchain related. I have
> the same problem with the development tree as well as with
> L2.6.31_10.08.01_SDK.
> 
>   I'm not a perl programmer, but it seems to be a timing problem is my
> guess. Does anyone have an idea where I could look to fix this bug ?
> Once this is fixed, I'll be able to build Gnash as part of the rootfs.
> 
>       - rob -
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