Bug#865898: perl: EU::MM regression in 5.26 breaks erlsvc build

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 08:37:10PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> Package: perl
> Version: 5.26.0-1
> Severity: important
> User: debian-perl at lists.debian.org
> Usertags: perl-5.26-transition
> Forwarded: https://github.com/Perl-Toolchain-Gang/ExtUtils-MakeMaker/issues/305
> Affects: erlsvc
> X-Debbugs-Cc: erlsvc at packages.debian.org
> 
> It looks like a regression in recent versions of ExtUtils-MakeMaker,
> including the one bundled with Perl 5.26.0 currently in experimental,
> broke the erlsvc build. I'm copying the erlsvc maintainer FYI, but it's
> not yet clear where this needs to be fixed.
> 
> A full build log is at
> 
>  http://perl.debian.net/rebuild-logs/perl-5.26-throwaway/erlsvc_1.02-2/erlsvc_1.02-2_amd64-2017-05-22T00:32:44Z.build
> 
> and the failure mode is
> 
>       dh_auto_test
>        make -j1 test TEST_VERBOSE=1
>    make[1]: Entering directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
>    make[2]: Entering directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/share'
>    make[2]: Nothing to be done for 'all'.
>    make[2]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/share'
>    make[2]: Entering directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/share'
>    make[2]: *** No rule to make target 'test_dynamic'.  Stop.
>    make[2]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/share'
>    Makefile:918: recipe for target 'subdirs-test_dynamic' failed
>    make[1]: *** [subdirs-test_dynamic] Error 2
>    make[1]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
>    dh_auto_test: make -j1 test TEST_VERBOSE=1 returned exit code 2
>    debian/rules:4: recipe for target 'build' failed
>    
> As noted in the upstream bug, I've bisected that this started with 
>  https://github.com/Perl-Toolchain-Gang/ExtUtils-MakeMaker/commit/0c38f3739cb7476fc1b843484584fee30c9ea69e
> and still happens with current HEAD.

Upstream seems to think that this is a problem with erlsvc, which I
tend to agree with, so probably this just be reassigned?

Dominic.