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On Thu, 03 Nov 2016 23:06:13 GMT, mat@cpan.org wrote: > > > mat: Could you explore what happens when you try to > > configure/make/make check texinfo in an environment where > > Unicode::EastAsianWidth is already installed against what texinfo's > > ./configure believes to be $PERL? > > Mmmm, Unicode::EastAsianWidth is bundled with the texinfo FreeBSD > uses, it comes from: > > ftp://ftp.stack.nl/pub/users/johans/texinfo/20160425/texinfo- > 6.1.tar.xz > > (I don't quite understand why it is not the official tarball, from > what I gather, there are some datafiles that are updated) > > I will try to see what happens if I have Unicode::EastAsianWidth > present when building texinfo tomorrow. mat, thanks for looking into this. texinfo is a *massive* distribution -- over 4200 files in just one of the top-level directories -- and its test suite is not easy to understand. I found that I had to insert 'print' statements for debugging, run 'make check', and then grep the distro for instances of the "Modification ..." failures we've been investigating. I can't reproduce those failures/crashes in simple Perl programs where Unicode::EastAsianWidth is clearly 'use'd. So the challenge will be to get a reproducible failure that can be run outside of 'make check'. The only thing I'm fairly certain of now is that this is not FreeBSD-specific. Since texinfo is maintained upstream of you by GNU, I feel we should alert the GNU maintainers about this problem. Thank you very much. -- James E Keenan (jkeenan@cpan.org) --- via perlbug: queue: perl5 status: open https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130010Thread Previous