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From:
David Cantrell
Date:
May 13, 2008 16:25
Subject:
Re: 5.8.9-to-be on Irix
Message ID:
20080513232511.GA30287@bytemark.barnyard.co.uk
On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 02:26:44PM +0200, S?bastien Aperghis-Tramoni wrote:
> Given 5.8.8 has Sys::Syslog 0.13, and 5.8.9-tobe and blead both have
> 0.24, could you try the following combinations:
OK, in both cases I built a fresh perl (5.8.9-to-be is Nicholas's build
33536), ignored the test failures in 5.8.9-to-be, and intalled to
~/perl-5.8.[whatever]. Then I did the untarred Sys-Syslog 0.13 and 0.24
and for each perl and each dist of the module did:
[path]/perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
0.24 came from the CPAN, 0.13 from the backpan.
> - 5.8.8 with 0.24 (will show if the regression was introduced by
> Sys::Syslog)
That fails, but passes with 0.13. But according to CPAN-testers, 0.24
*passes* with 5.8.8 on some other platforms, so this is Irix-specific.
> - 5.8.9-tobe with 0.13 (will show if the regression was introduced
> by something else in Perl)
That passes.
With 0.24 I noticed this:
cc-1174 cc: WARNING File = Syslog.c, Line = 367
The variable "RETVAL" was declared but never referenced.
which might explain the failures.
So given that 0.24 fails with 5.8.8 it looks like the problem is in
Sys::Syslog, and not with perl itself. Tomorrow I'll grovel over the
backpan and see exactly when the bug was introduced.
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David Cantrell | A machine for turning tea into grumpiness
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