Bug #97933 for Time-y2038: Hanging check_max program stays running on Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard

Mon Aug 11 11:27:48 2014 ryandesign [...] macports.org - Ticket created

Subject:	Hanging check_max program stays running on Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
Date:	Mon, 11 Aug 2014 10:27:26 -0500
To:	bug-Time-y2038 [...] rt.cpan.org
From:	Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign [...] macports.org>

When building Time::y2038 20100403 on Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard (a.k.a. darwin 10); the check_max program hangs. The build script detects this and times out after awhile, but the stuck check_max program stays running (forever?) in the background. In MacPorts, this causes a hang at the end of the build phase while MacPorts apparently waits for that process to exit. Here is the MacPorts project's ticket about this bug: https://trac.macports.org/ticket/30718 Could you change your build system so that when it is detected that check_max has hung, it is then terminated? Thanks.

Mon Aug 18 04:47:48 2014 ryandesign [...] macports.org - Correspondence added

Subject:	Re: [rt.cpan.org #97933] AutoReply: Hanging check_max program stays running on Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
Date:	Mon, 18 Aug 2014 03:47:34 -0500
To:	bug-Time-y2038 [...] rt.cpan.org
From:	Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign [...] macports.org>

I am by no means an expert perl programmer, so if something looks wrong in this, it probably is, but here is the patch I committed to MacPorts to fix this problem: https://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/dports/perl/p5-time-y2038/files/patch-inc-Local-Module-Build.pm.diff?rev=124076

Mon Aug 18 15:15:37 2014 schwern [...] pobox.com - Correspondence added

Subject:	Re: [rt.cpan.org #97933] AutoReply: Hanging check_max program stays running on Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
Date:	Mon, 18 Aug 2014 12:15:16 -0700
To:	bug-Time-y2038 [...] rt.cpan.org
From:	Michael G Schwern <schwern [...] pobox.com>

Oooh, a patch! Thank you very much, I'll dust off the project and give it a shot.

Mon Aug 18 15:15:38 2014 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

Mon Aug 18 15:49:11 2014 mschwern [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

I've committed the patch, thank you. https://github.com/schwern/y2038/commit/7727ba922bb987a4ec0622bde2cba448731a6dd9

The distribution is not in a fit state to be released at the moment. It hasn't been touched in a few years and needs a bunch of minor updates for new C compilers and Perl dependencies. I will not be able to do that work for a few weeks, I'm heading off into the wilderness. You are more than welcome to have a go.
https://github.com/schwern/y2038

Mon Aug 18 15:49:11 2014 mschwern [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'patched'