SOLVED test failure: 1.3.1, swig 1.3.28, ruby 1.8, Linux / PowerPC

[Peter Samuelson]
> On Debian we've been seeing test suite failures from the ruby bindings,
> Subversion 1.3.0 and 1.3.1, swig 1.3.28, on PowerPC. One user on i386
> _may_ have tracked it down to a Ruby problem; see below.

I obtained access to a powerpc box today, and narrowed it down to a
Ruby problem: compiling ruby1.8 with one version of gcc (4.0.2) makes
the svn testsuite fail, another version (4.0.3) makes it succeed.

So please disregard this report, it appears to have nothing to do with
Subversion.

Peter