perl 5.22.0 blockers, April 23

I'm back in the USA, and unless something weird happens, I'm here until 5.22.0
is out!  In today's email I'm skipping all of the bugs that I consider
"informational for rjbs to write Known Problems."  That's generally "module
broken by a long-deprecated construct finally removed months ago."  That
includes [perl #123213], which is not really quite in that cateogry.

I count nine blockers, at least some of which look quick or maybe already
half done.

Here we go:

# THEIR PROBLEM (EXCEPT OUR PROBLEM TOO)

  # Dist broken by xs_handshake
    https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=123462

    Looks like we just need a PadWalker release?

    I sent ROBIN an email about this today.

  # ExtUtils::MakeMaker and Windows
    https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=123998

    I'm not 100% sure on the status of this ticket.  Is the heart of the matter
    really this "chcp" program now?  If so, is the deal: fix that or else
    revert EUMM?


# OUR PROBLEM (OR, WE ARE THEM)

  # segfault on error during unwind
    https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=124156

    This was, in 5.20, a regression from 5.18.  I would of course like to see
    it fixed in 5.22, but if worse comes to worst, we can move ahead with the
    problem still in place.

    Let's not, if we can help it.

  # BDB broken by bugfix to & proto
    https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=123475

  # assertion violated by bogus input
    https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=123737

    This ticket was marked resolved, then re-opened for a new input.  Should
    be fixed.

  # null pointer dereference
    https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=124187

    It looks like we've just gotten patch from Tony for this.  Anybody care to
    give it a second look?

  # bogus inputs causes assertion failure
    https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=124368

    This is a pretty recent one.  No comments from porters yet.

  # regexp tests failing (on SunOS, anyway) under threads+64bitall
    https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=124348

    Karl was looking into this, but seemed to be having some Heisenbug
    problems.

# MAYBE NOBODY'S PROBLEM

  # warnings during build
    https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=124181

    Looks like nobody has been able to reproduce this for the month since its
    creation.

-- 
rjbs

• perl 5.22.0 blockers, April 23 by Ricardo Signes
• Re: perl 5.22.0 blockers, April 23 by wolfsage
• Re: perl 5.22.0 blockers, April 23 by Ricardo Signes