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On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 10:53:02AM -0400, Chip Salzenberg wrote: > I understand that 5.8.1 is supposed to be binary compatible with > 5.8.0. However, the Debian build of 5.8.1, is not compatible with the > Debian HTML::Parser binary package. Rebuilding HTML::Parser (without > any source changes) fixed the failure. > > Has anyone else experienced an upgrade difficulty of this kind? Is > it, in the collective opinion of this august list, Debian-specific? I'm noticing this, too. I've been trying to install the new version of WWW::Mechanize, and it's been failing all sorts of tests. I've been working with Andy Lester to figure out what the problem is, and we tracked it down to report_tags() in HTML::Parser. Like Chip, I'm running 5.8.1 with a version of HTML::Parser that was built under 5.8.0. However, unlike Chip, I'm using a version of Perl I built myself. I don't know enough XS to understand much of that code, but I did see that report_tags was defined as an HV*. I had a hunch that it might be related to the hash randomization that was introduced in 5.8.1, so I tried setting PERL_HASH_SEED to 0 and rerunning make test. Sure enough, all the tests for WWW::Mechanize now passed! Unfortunately knowing that HV means "hash value" is about the limit of my knowledge of perl internals, so I can't tell if this is happening due to a bug in HTML::Parse or a binary incompatibility in 5.8.1. WaltThread Previous | Thread Next