On Sat, 01 Jun 2019 18:33:12 -0700, "James E Keenan \(via RT\)" <perlbug-followup@perl.org> wrote: > # New Ticket Created by James E Keenan > # Please include the string: [perl #134164] > # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. > # <URL: https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=134164 > > > > 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. Not using bisectors a lot, but I fully agree with this patch -- H.Merijn Brand http://tux.nl Perl Monger http://amsterdam.pm.org/ using perl5.00307 .. 5.29 porting perl5 on HP-UX, AIX, and openSUSE http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org/ http://qa.perl.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/Thread Previous