Perl 5.14 packaging underway

[Niko Tyni]

On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 12:13:52AM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 10:24:27PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 01:18:41PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> > > On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 09:49:37AM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 10:28:09PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> > > 
> > > > > At the moment I'm getting the following build failure on sid:
> > > > 
> > > > > Failed 4 tests out of 2037, 99.80% okay.
> > > > >         ../cpan/Module-Build/t/xs.t
> > > > >         ../dist/ExtUtils-ParseXS/t/basic.t
> > > > >         ../dist/ExtUtils-ParseXS/t/more.t
> > > > >         ../dist/ExtUtils-ParseXS/t/usage.t
> > > > > 
> > > > > But they all pass with flying colours when run from the same build tree
> > > > > manual.

> In our case, it's dpkg-buildpackage setting CFLAGS to "-g -O2".

> I doubt this is a blocker for 5.14.0, but I'll report it upstream next
> anyway. 

> I think we're going to have to patch ExtUtils::CBuilder for now.

I've pushed a fix for this (and another issue only affecting i386)
to perl-5.14.git. It now builds fine for me on i386 too.

I've also reported

 http://rt.perl.org/rt3//Public/Bug/Display.html?id=89478
 http://bugs.debian.org/624460 (against libextutils-cbuilder-perl)

-- 
Niko