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From:
James E Keenan via RT
Date:
November 6, 2016 23:20
Subject:
[perl #130010] v5.25.5-184-ga5540cf breaks texinfo
Message ID:
rt-4.0.24-30761-1478474406-1201.130010-15-0@perl.org
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)

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