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On Tue, 04 Jun 2019 00:20:10 GMT, tonyc wrote: > On Sat, 01 Jun 2019 18:33:12 -0700, jkeenan@pobox.com wrote: > > Some dialog from irc.perl.org #p5p this evening: > > > > ##### > > (08:09:00 PM) hydahy: Anyone familiar with Porting/bisect.pl bailing > > out > > early in Configure with the error "./Configure: 1: ./posthint.sh: Bad > > substitution" ? > > ... > > (09:10:34 PM) kid51: What is the command you provided for bisection? > > ... > > (09:17:15 PM) hydahy: Started with: ./Porting/bisect.pl --target > > t/io/pipe.t --start v5.31.0 -A -Alibpth="/system/lib /vendor/lib" > > (09:17:31 PM) hydahy: Error also occurs with ./Porting/bisect.pl > > --test-build -A -Alibpth="/system/lib /vendor/lib" > > (09:21:38 PM) kid51: Remove the first '-A' and start over. > > (09:23:14 PM) hydahy: ohhhh, I misunderstood the POD then > > (09:23:26 PM) kid51: You're not the first! > > (09:23:34 PM) khw: clarifying patches welcome > > ##### > > > > hydahy is not the first, because I know I have had to pose this > > question > > at least twice before. > > > > TonyC and other frequent bisectors, please review patch attached. > > --D I<config_arg=value> > +-DI<config_arg=value> > > =item * > > --U I<config_arg> > +-UI<config_arg> > > =item * > > --A I<config_arg=value> > +-AI<config_arg=value> > > bisect.pl accepts the switches both with and without the space, just > as Configure does which is what it looks like you're changing here. > > For example, I ran: > > perl ../bisect.pl --start=v5.26.0 -D prefix=/home/tony/perl/bisect -e > 'my $a := 2' > > and in the resulting config.sh: > > config_args='-dEs -Dcc=ccache cc -Dld=cc -Dlibpth=/lib/x86_64-linux- > gnu /lib/../lib /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu /usr/lib/../lib /lib > /usr/lib /usr/local/lib64 /lib64 /usr/lib64 -Doptimize=-g > -Dprefix=/home/tony/perl/bisect -Dusedevel' > > The I<config_arg> in the documentation might be ambiguous if you're > not familiar with Configure (ie. that it accepts -A, -D and -U > switches), but your patch doesn't change that (config_name instead, > maybe?) > > I suspect the best change would be to include your commit message: > > The -D, -A and -U switches should be spelled as if you were normally > giving them to ./Configure. > > which would resolve the ambiguity. > > I don't think the following is needed: > > - -Dnoextensions=Encode > - -Uusedevel > + -Dnoextensions=Encode \ > + -Uusedevel \ > -Accflags=-DNO_MATHOMS > > as those are intended as separate examples. > > Tony Thanks. Pushed to blead in commit 6aed8e2d2d20b43fbdcd898f56cd758774b15195. -- James E Keenan (jkeenan@cpan.org) --- via perlbug: queue: perl5 status: open https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=134164Thread Next