# New Ticket Created by Jarkko Hietaniemi # Please include the string: [perl #132914] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=132914 > On 2/26/18 19:32, James E Keenan wrote: > Today I installed the gcc7 package on both FreeBSD-10.3 and 11.0. I > then compiled and build perl configuring like this: > > ##### > sh ./Configure -des -Dusedevel -Duseithreads \ > -Doptimize="-O2 -pipe -fstack-protector -fno-strict-aliasing" \ > -Dcc="g++7" \ > -Accflags="-Wl,-rpath=/usr/local/lib/gcc7" \ > -Aldflags="-Wl,-rpath=/usr/local/lib/gcc7" > ##### > > There were plenty of warnings during 'make', but since we have not yet > heavily explored building perl with gcc7 or g++7, I'll defer discussion > of them; 'make' completed successfully. > > During 'make test_harness', however, I got failures in t/op/sprintf2.t. > Please see attachments. Off-hand, since the only tests that started failing are to do with subnormal handling, and since the tests have previously passed (right?) with freebsd/gcc (some older gcc), maybe something has changed in the subnormal handling? CCing Zefram explicitly since he usually has a good hunch about these things. > Note that we have one other long-standing Open ticket for t/op/sprintf2.t: > > https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=122591 > > Thank you very much. > Jim Keenan >