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From:
Uwe Düffert
Date:
July 9, 2022 08:59
Subject:
Re: perl-5.37.1 breaks texinfo-6.8
Message ID:
alpine.DEB.2.21.2207090929310.25643@uwe-dueffert.de
Dear Karl and perl5-porters,

On Fri, 8 Jul 2022, Karl Williamson wrote:

> Please then try adding the attached patch to your perl, and see if the 
> problem is solved.
Well, I'd say it "modifies" the problem. With perl-5.37.1 with this patch, 
the offending perl command from texinfo does not panic anymore. Instead, 
it creates a 300K texinfo.info and then continues to run with full 
CPU usage forever (or at least until manually terminated after 5min).

With perl-5.37.0, the offending command instead creates a tiny 
texinfo.info and 3 ~300K texinfo-{1,2,3}.info and finishes in like 1 
second.


> And in any case please send us the output of the Linux command
> locale -a
Sure. Nothing fancy I'm aware of:
$> locale -a
C
C.utf8
de_DE
de_DE@euro
de_DE.iso88591
de_DE.iso885915@euro
de_DE.utf8
en_US
en_US.iso88591
en_US.utf8
POSIX


Regards
Uwe

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