[Pkg-erlang-devel] Bug#958841: erlang breaks elixir-lang autopkgtest: killed

[Sergei Golovan]

On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 11:01 AM Sergei Golovan <sgolovan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Looks like changes in Erlang regular expressions library broke Elixir
> again. Elixir stores internal binary representation of regular
> expressions in its compilation phase, and it breaks when Erlang
> changes this representation (which happens now and then, since it
> isn't supposed to be stable).
>
> I've already added a virtual package which reflects the version of the
> PCRE library Erlang uses (to indicate that Elixir requires
> rebuilding), but clearly it's insufficient. I'll have to increment its
> version on changes in erl_bif_re.c as well.
>
> As a long term solution, I'd suggest the maintainer of Elixir to reach
> out downstream and suggest not to use unstable interfaces fro regular

Sorry, I meant upstream here.

> expressions (not precompile them in advance).

Also, it seems like Elixir upstream did some enhancements in this area.
See the changelog to 1.9.2:
https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/releases/tag/v1.9.2

Cheers!
-- 
Sergei Golovan