Bug#869229: perl: FTBFS on hurd-i386: Time-HiRes/t/utime.t fails

[Niko Tyni]

On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 02:27:38PM -0400, Aaron M. Ucko wrote:
> Source: perl
> Version: 5.26.0-4
> Severity: important
> Justification: fails to build from source (but built successfully in the past)
> 
> Recent builds of perl on hurd-i386 (admittedly not a release
> architecture) have been failing with multiple errors in the
> dist/Time-HiRes/t/utime test, as detailed at
> 
> https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=perl&arch=hurd-i386&ver=5.26.0-4&stamp=1500637358&raw=0

Thanks. Copying the debian-hurd list. This looks like

 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=116127

which was about ext2/ext3 on Linux not recording fractional seconds. The
"fix" of parsing /proc/mounts seems fragile at best...

Patches for fixing this on Hurd would be welcome, and I expect upstream
to be receptive as well.
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org