This problem has been noted in a couple of other bug reports but they were for RH5.2 or not specific to this problem. H2ph cannot handle the way that glibc embeds defines inside enumerations. This code snippet from <bits/socket.h> shows the cause of the problem: enum __socket_type { SOCK_STREAM = 1, /* Sequenced, reliable, connection-based byte streams. */ #define SOCK_STREAM SOCK_STREAM SOCK_DGRAM = 2, /* Connectionless, unreliable datagrams of fixed maximum length. */ Somehow, h2ph either misses the SOCK_STREAM = 1 or overrides it with #define SOCK_STREAM SOCK_STREAM. This causes the subsequent bits/socket.ph to have the follow function: eval 'sub SOCK_STREAM () { &SOCK_STREAM;}' unless defined(&SOCK_STREAM); Which is obviously wrong and causes an infinite loop to occur. With some programs (aub was the only one I explicitly tested), this causes perl eat memory and eventually lock up the machine. A brief glance at the srpm in rawhide shows that no patch has been applied to h2ph so it probably won't fix this problem.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 2297 ***