Epic5-0.3.1 ruby support and FreeBSD AMD64 problem

[Josh Paetzel]

I'm the port maintainer for irc/epic4 and irc/epic5 and try to liason 
with the developers as much as possible.  I've received a request 
from the Epic developers that I can't really help with and I'm 
wondering if someone would be willing to be able to lend them a hand.

Epic5-0.3.1 includes optional ruby support.  When ruby support is 
compiled in on an AMD64 box attempting to use gdb on it 
spontainiously reboots the box, no panic, no hang, just a hard reset.  
The problem has been verified to occur on 5-STABLE and 6-STABLE on 
multiple machines.  It does not occur if the gdb from devel/gdb6 is 
used.

At the moment I'm dealing with the situation by keeping the port at 
5.0.2.0 but I'm getting more and more requests to get 0.3.1 into the 
tree.  Given the nature of the problem doing so at this point means 
either not having the ruby support in the port or marking it broken 
for AMD64, neither of which are particularly attractive.

Any level of help would be appreciated, whether it's just a 'here's 
what I would look for first" all the way up to digging into some 
code.  I'd rather not post email addresses to the list but if a kind 
soul wishes to get in contact with the epic team I can give contact 
info out privately.

Another (possibly useful) data point that occurs to me is that it 
hasn't been tested on any sort of 64 bit linux at all, so it's really 
unknown if this is FBSD specific.

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Thanks,

Josh Paetzel