Bug#914128: perl: usrmerge issues

[Vagrant Cascadian]

On 2021-07-15, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> On 2018-11-19, Niko Tyni wrote:
>> Diffoscoping a perl built on a usrmerged [1] system with
>> one built on a non-usrmerged system reveals the configure
>> process hardcoding some paths in the build results,
>>
>> [1] https://wiki.debian.org/UsrMerge
>>
>> Snippets from config.h, Config.pm, Config_heavy.pl, config.sh.debug.gz
>> and so forth include things below.
...
>> -libpth => '/usr/local/lib /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/8/include-fixed /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu /usr/lib /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu /lib/../lib /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu /usr/lib/../lib /lib',
>> +libpth => '/usr/local/lib /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/8/include-fixed /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu /usr/lib /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu /lib/../lib /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu /usr/lib/../lib /lib /lib64 /usr/lib64',
...
>> -libspath=' /usr/local/lib /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/8/include-fixed /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu /usr/lib /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu /lib/../lib /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu /usr/lib/../lib /lib'
>> +libspath=' /usr/local/lib /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/8/include-fixed /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu /usr/lib /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu /lib/../lib /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu /usr/lib/../lib /lib /lib64 /usr/lib64'

Attached patch also fixes these issues, by adjusting libpth and libspath
in debian/config.over ... it feels a little hackish ... but ...

With all three patches applied, perl builds reproducibly!


live well,
  vagrant
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