Bug#629293: libtie-regexphash-perl: FTBFS with perl 5.14: test failures

[gregor herrmann]

On Sun, 05 Jun 2011 12:33:27 +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:

> This package fails to build with perl 5.14, currently in experimental:
> 
> t/01-RegexpHash.t .. ok
> Use of uninitialized value $pat in regexp compilation at /build/dom-libtie-regexphash-perl_0.15-2-i386-0UlrxE/libtie-regexphash-perl-0.15/blib/lib/Tie/RegexpHash.pm line 309.
> 
> #   Failed test at t/02-RegexpHash.t line 44.
> # Looks like you failed 1 test of 13.
> t/02-RegexpHash.t .. 
> Dubious, test returned 1 (wstat 256, 0x100)
> 
> This is <https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=66875>

This is a bit tricky; as the warning suggests, this is not (only?) a
problem in the tests but really in the code:
lib/Tie/RegexpHash.pm does all kind of nasty mangling with the
regexes _as strings_ (and stringification of regexps has changed in
5.14).

Probably using the re pragma could help here, but it requires a major
surgical intervention.

Since libtie-regexphash-perl has no build or runtime rdeps we can
remove it at least from testing ...


Cheers,
gregor
 
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