Bug#599933: perl: fails to build with GCC 4.5

[Colin Watson]

Package: perl
Version: 5.10.1-15
Severity: important
Tags: patch
User: ubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com
Usertags: origin-ubuntu ubuntu-patch natty

Ubuntu recently switched to GCC 4.5, and we quickly found that Perl
failed to build with it.  Here's the build log:

  http://launchpadlibrarian.net/57494704/buildlog_ubuntu-natty-i386.perl_5.10.1-15ubuntu1_FAILEDTOBUILD.txt.gz

It ends as follows:

  # Verify that the headers are usable
  for ph in `< /build/buildd/perl-5.10.1/debian/headers sed -e 's/\.h$/.ph/'`; do \
                  if [ ! -f /build/buildd/perl-5.10.1/debian/tmp/usr/lib/perl/5.10/$ph ]; then \
                          echo "$ph: missing"; else \
                  /build/buildd/perl-5.10.1/perl.static -I /build/buildd/perl-5.10.1/debian/tmp/usr/lib/perl/5.10 -I /build/buildd/perl-5.10.1/debian/tmp/usr/share/perl/5.10 -e \
                          "print '"$ph": '; require '"$ph"'; print \"ok\n\";" \
                                  || exit 1; \
                  fi; \
          done
  Illegal declaration of subroutine main::__INT16_C at /build/buildd/perl-5.10.1/debian/tmp/usr/lib/perl/5.10/_h2ph_pre.ph line 162.
  Compilation failed in require at /build/buildd/perl-5.10.1/debian/tmp/usr/lib/perl/5.10/asm/termios.ph line 1.
  Compilation failed in require at -e line 1.
  asm/termios.ph: make: *** [install-stamp] Error 1

I hunted around a bit and tracked down
http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commit/8d66b3f930dc6d88b524d103e304308ae73a46e7,
which fixes this problem (although the commit message is uninformative).
Attached please find a patch to incorporate this.

Thanks,

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]
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