On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 12:13:09AM +0200, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Domenico Andreoli wrote:
>
> > in the process of building curl on ia64 with these [1] configure parameters
> > test 60 fails. it happens that if i remove --enable-debug test 60 succeeds.
>
> I find that very strange, and it indicates a problem with the debug stuff.
>
> Anyway, why is the automatic builds using --enable-debug? In this case it
> surely has helped us notice a problem but I'm curious... The real binaries
> aren't made with that, right?
>
i provide a libcurl2-dbg debian package with all the symbols and debug
whistles (--enable-debug) to help those who debug software that uses
libcurl2.

> > i attached the file stderr60 which i think is related to the failure. i'm
> > not able to understand it at the moment.
>
> It proves some major internal screw-up:
>
> Check out these headers sent by curl in that test failure:
>
> Content-Length: 1
> Content-Length: -1
>
> (The -1 is not supposed to be there of course.)
>
i also noted it, but i was not sure about the meaning.

> I figure the only good way to solve this is to login to an ia64 machine (or
> any other platform that can be made to show this problem) and debug it.
>
among alpha, ia64, s390, arm, powerpc, mipsel, hppa, mips, sparc and
m68k only ia64 has the problem.

i'm going to put a "-" in front of "make test" for the debug build,
i cannot dig into it at the moment. sorry.

cheers
dom

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Received on 2003-08-07