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Dear Karl / perl5-porters, On Tue, 5 Jul 2022, Karl Williamson wrote: > On 7/2/22 05:20, Uwe Düffert wrote: >> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------- >> perl-5.37.1 breaks texinfo-6.8. >> The error occurring is "Unexpected character in locale name 'XY at >> ../tp/Texinfo/Report.pm line 320." with XY being random. This breaks >> texinfo build and later on on a system using it, it e.g. breaks building >> binutils-2.38 too. >> >> Under exactly same conditions (same machine, environment, build >> instructions), there is no problem with perl-5.37.0 (or earlier). You can >> even switch back and forth: Build and install perl-5.37.0 (or earlier) and >> building texinfo+binutils works fine, build and install perl-5.37.1 and >> building texinfo+binutils fails with above error. Repeatably. >> > > The error message is new in 5.37.1. I can work on this if you add > -DDEBBUGGING to your Configure options; then when you run whatever command > that causes this to fail, say it is a make, do > > PERL5OPT=-DLv make ... > > If the failing command is perl, you can just say > > perl -DLv ... I appreciate your input and I tried really hard. But: No, that will not help you to work on this. Because: Adding -DDEBBUGGING to the build of perl-5.37.1 will make the problem go away. Well reproducibly for me. So instead, I believe the material on https://uwe-dueffert.de/code/perl5.37.1/ may help you. I can provide a reduced test case - a single perl command from texinfo "in its natural environment" in https://uwe-dueffert.de/code/perl5.37.1/texinfo-6.8_doc_problem.tar.xz If I compile perl5.37.1 without -DDEBBUGGING like this: https://uwe-dueffert.de/code/perl5.37.1/140_perl.sh above test case will result in panic: locale.c: 835: Unexpected character in locale name '66 at tp/Texinfo/Report.pm line 320. If I compile perl5.37.0 or earlier or perl5.37.1 with -DDEBBUGGING, above test case will output no error and instead create *.info files as desired. I can repeat both arbitrarily often (with no other change), see e.g. example build logs in https://uwe-dueffert.de/code/perl5.37.1/ Regards Uwe DüffertThread Previous | Thread Next