Bug#886494: polymake: Can't locate loadable object for module Polymake::Ext in @INC

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Mon, Jan 08, 2018 at 10:40:19PM +0200, Niko Tyni wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 07, 2018 at 05:04:17PM +0200, Niko Tyni wrote:
> 
> > The wasted stats could certainly be fixed by modifying our relevant
> > changes to perl.c
> >  https://sources.debian.org/src/perl/5.26.1-3/debian/patches/debian/mod_paths.diff/
> > but I haven't looked into that properly yet.
> 
> I did this now and pushed to the 'ntyni/inc-version-list'
> branch of the Debian perl git repository.
> 
> The relevant changes are
> 
>  https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/perl/perl.git/diff/debian/patches/debian/mod_paths.diff?h=ntyni/inc-version-list&id=3885251398d6e2897fa57cafe61134e4e14593ac
> 
>  https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/perl/perl.git/commit/?h=ntyni/inc-version-list&id=f8e4ea6058a58019e78a5c3225a6ab4a3d0c6700
> 
> A test build fixes the polymake issue and doesn't seem to break anything
> major.
> 
> I'm inclined to reassign this bug to perl and close it with the above
> change unless I hear arguments to the contrary.

This all looks well reasoned and sensible, thanks for digging into
that!

Cheers,
Dominic.