[perl #7698] Weird, underspecified, BSD error

On Mon Sep 17 18:54:50 2001, don@resun.com wrote:
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> [Please enter your report here]
> I'm trying to run down a problem where a perl script is invoking
> a separate program, and is trying to interface via the stdio
> package.
> 
> At this point, I'm not providing a test case, since I believe that
> one of the standard test cases may be relevant.
> 
> The test case is included in pragma/warnings as test case #303
> (pp_hot.c).  There is a note on the test that it fails on some BSD*
> systems, however, the same test also appears to be included in perl
> v5.004.04 and does not fail (at least under BSD v1.4.2).
> 
> In other words, when using a higher version level of perl v5.6.1,
> the test fails, but when using perl v5.004.04, the test passes.
> 
> Since it's two different versions of perl, running on the same OS,
> I'd suspect that something changed in perl that has caused the
> problem.
> 
> The program in question functions perfectly when using perl
> v5.004.04 under NetBSD v1.4.2.  It is failing when using perl v5.6.1
> under NetBSD 1.5.2.  (The problem that I fixed by using perl
> v5.004.04 under NetBSD v1.4.2 has reappeared since I reinstalled
> perl when I upgraded NetBSD to v1.5.2.  I can't simply use the perl
> v5.004.04 code file, as the code file formats changed to ELF from
> a.out when the OS was changed, and also, the location of the
> libraries is different (libraries are under a different mount
> point.)
> 
> Ultimately, it would be nice to see perl v5.6.1 fixed so that it
> would correctly execute the program, and so that I wouldn't have to
> play games, trying to run two different version of perl at the same
> time (as I did under NetBSD v1.4.2).
> 
> I'm willing to try and provide more information and/or run tests to
> try and determine what the problem is.
> 
> [Please do not change anything below this line]
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> Flags:
>     category=core
>     severity=medium
> ---
> Site configuration information for perl v5.6.1:
> 
> Configured by don at Sun Sep 16 15:31:28 PDT 2001.
> 
> Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 6 subversion 1)
> configuration:
>   Platform:
>     osname=netbsd, osvers=1.5.2, archname=i386-netbsd
>     uname='netbsd pulsar.resun.com 1.5.2 netbsd 1.5.2 (resun) #0: mon
> sep 10 04:07:43 pdt 2001
> don@pulsar.resun.com:usrsrcsysarchi386compileresun i386 '
>     config_args=''
>     hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
>     usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef
> usemultiplicity=undef
>     useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef
>     use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef
>   Compiler:
>     cc='cc', ccflags ='-DDEBUGGING -fno-strict-aliasing
> -I/usr/pkg/include',
>     optimize='-O2 -g',
>     cppflags='-DDEBUGGING -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/pkg/include'
>     ccversion='', gccversion='egcs-2.91.66 19990314 (egcs-1.1.2
> release)', gccosandvers=''
>     intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234
>     d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define,
> longdblsize=12
>     ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t',
> lseeksize=8
>     alignbytes=4, usemymalloc=y, prototype=define
>   Linker and Libraries:
>     ld='cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/pkg/lib'
>     libpth=/usr/local/lib /usr/pkg/lib /usr/lib
>     libs=-lm -lc -lposix -lcrypt -lutil
>     perllibs=-lm -lc -lposix -lcrypt -lutil
>     libc=/usr/lib/libc.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
>   Dynamic Linking:
>     dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-Wl,-E
> -Wl,-R/lib '
>     cccdlflags='-DPIC -fPIC ', lddlflags='--whole-archive -shared
> -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/pkg/lib'
> 
> Locally applied patches:
> 
> 
> ---
> @INC for perl v5.6.1:
>     /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.1/i386-netbsd
>     /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.1
>     /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/i386-netbsd
>     /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1
>     /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl
>     .
> 
> ---
> Environment for perl v5.6.1:
>     HOME=/home/resun/don
>     LANG (unset)
>     LANGUAGE (unset)
>     LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
>     LOGDIR (unset)
>    
PATH=/home/resun/don/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/pkg/bin:/usr/pkg/sbin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/etc:/usr/games:/usr/X11R6/bin
>     PERL_BADLANG (unset)
>     SHELL=/usr/pkg/bin/tcsh


Since neither NetBSD 1.5.2 nor Perl 5.6 are supported, and newer Perls
install cleanly on NetBSD 5, I vote to close this.


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https://rt.perl.org:443/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=7698

• [ID 20010918.001] by Don Phillips
• [perl #7698] Weird, underspecified, BSD error by Brian Fraser via RT
• Re: [perl #7698] Weird, underspecified, BSD error by Nicholas Clark