chainlink.pl /proc/cpuinfo regexp fails on s390x

[Andreas Hasenack <andreas@canonical.com>]

Hi,

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git commit 29fb2ec384a867ca577335a12f4b45c184e7b642[1], present in
2.38.0 and later, introduced a function that gets the number of cores
from /proc/cpuinfo. It essentially does this on linux:

    do { local @ARGV='/proc/cpuinfo'; return
scalar(grep(/^processor\s*:/, <>)); } if -r '/proc/cpuinfo';

On s390x, the ^processor lines are like this:

processor 0: version = FF, identification = 148F67, machine = 2964

In other arches (I checked amd64, armhf and arm64), they are like this instead:

processor : 0

As a result, that function is returning 0 on s390x, and that value is
used for the number of jobs the script should execute. Since it's
zero, it exits without doing anything, and that breaks the test and
the build[3] on s390x.

This is trivial and I don't think a PR is necessary, but let me know
if you want one.

That regexp could perhaps be:

/^processor\s*\d*\s*:/

or

/^processor[\s\d]*:/

or something else.


1. https://github.com/git/git/commit/29fb2ec384a867ca577335a12f4b45c184e7b642
2. https://github.com/git/git/commit/29fb2ec384a867ca577335a12f4b45c184e7b642#diff-e7042d714d4be11a06d153e6f2daeb3c3a9766b972522baab8ba113b962086cfR574
3. https://launchpadlibrarian.net/635348769/buildlog_ubuntu-lunar-s390x.git_1%3A2.38.1-1ubuntu1_BUILDING.txt.gz