Bug#869373: Bug#869122: perl: 5.26 FTBFS on hppa: broken miniperl?

[Niko Tyni]

On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 03:55:14PM -0400, John David Anglin wrote:
> On 2017-07-24, at 5:31 PM, John David Anglin wrote:
> 
> >> Does it work for you without the Perl_custom_op_get_field() code
> >> reorganization if you patch cflags.SH further like this?
> >> 
> >> -    op) : work around http://bugs.debian.org/838613
> >> +    op|opmini) : work around http://bugs.debian.org/838613
> >> 
> >> This should make it build both op.c and opmini.c at -O0.
> > 
> > Might work.
> 
> Another option is to use gcc-7.  It built 2.26 successfully.  Problem seems to be specific to gcc-6.

My preference at this point would be amending the earlier patch as above
to also lower the opmini.c optimization. I intend to upload 5.26.0-5
soonish with that workaround activated for hppa and sh4. Let's revisit
the other options if that doesn't work out.

(I understand the urgency related to the 5.26 transition is over now
for you too, so it hopefully shouldn't impact your other work much if
-5 doesn't build on hppa/sh4 after all.)

Thanks for your work,
-- 
Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org