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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Perl self-tests
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 12:45:17
Message-Id: 200410210845.26718.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Perl self-tests by Dylan Carlson
1 On Thursday 21 October 2004 07:41 am, Dylan Carlson wrote:
2 > Some users are reporting memory leaks during dev-lang/perl install, where
3 > it eats up all of the memory.
4
5 using a lot of memory != memory leak
6
7 > So, my question is, why was the above bug was closed CANTFIX? Telling
8 > people to hack the ebuild to avoid a buggy test routine is not a solution.
9
10 i asked rac about this once and he convinced that forcing the test on everyone
11 makes sense (to help catch bad perl installs as a result of people using
12 stupid CFLAGS)
13
14 in reality, why are you asking gentoo-dev and not the perl people
15 themselves ... they certainly can handle this question since it's been asked
16 often enough
17 -mike
18
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Perl self-tests Dylan Carlson <absinthe@g.o>