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From:
Craig A. Berry
Date:
October 17, 2016 15:08
Subject:
Re: Time-HiRes broken in Sierra
Message ID:
CA+vYcVxgLEdCjkKs70W+5Q4hHd8H2HrS3LMu_XUvpqAP-hJBoA@mail.gmail.com
On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 2:58 AM, Mojca Miklavec <mojca@macports.org> wrote:
> On 16 October 2016 at 23:42, Craig A. Berry <craig.a.berry@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, Oct 16, 2016 at 4:37 PM, Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> wrote:
>>> On Sunday-201610-16 17:31, Craig A. Berry wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Oct 16, 2016 at 3:43 PM, Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sunday-201610-16 16:09, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commit/d1e7b5aaf871f3bb4562cefa3ee3153d9aa9506f
>>>>>> looks likely culprit.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commit/69d1f2c2cdaa4ac2f37372e8c15c679848df2252
>>>>>
>>>>> looks possible cure.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> There may still be a problem when building on Sierra but targeting
>>>> older versions.  See
>>>
>>>
>>> Urk.  Didn't we have some macports contacts?
>>
>> I think that would be Mojca, whom I've cc'd.
>>
>>>
>>>> <http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/09/msg239768.html>
>>>>
>>>> That scenario is probably not smoke tested so could easily slip
>>>> through and affect macports or anybody packaging on Sierra for
>>>> pre-Sierra deployments.
>
> What exactly should I test?
>
> Building Perl on Sierra with an older target and then try to run it on
> an older OS?

That would be helpful, and also if you could confirm that you do build
on current but deploy on older versions.

> Which version should I test exactly?

Building on Sierra and running on any older version should do the
trick.  Sierra is the first darwin version that has clock_gettime().

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