Bug#719578: Patch for a cdk-perl-20130717 build failure with Perl 5.18

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 10:41:56AM +0200, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 08:24:44PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 10:23:54PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> > > Hi Thomas,
> > > 
> > > recent changes in cdk-perl-20130717 broke the build again with
> > > newer versions of ExtUtils::ParseXS, including the one
> > > bundled with Perl 5.18.
> > 
> > thanks (I'd have found this directly, but haven't found a way to get
> > 5.18 other than compiling it myself - it seems that Debian/experimental
> > skipped a step between 5.14 and 5.18).
> 
> Debian experimental did have 5.16 at one point, and 5.18 is now in Debian
> experimental. In any case, the main practical problem with testing is the
> large number of other perl XS module packages which also need to be
> rebuilt (over 300 in the archive). This has been done for i386 and the
> results are at
> 
> http://people.debian.org/~dom/perl/test/perl-5.18.0/
> 
> (only suitable for a dedicated test system really).
> Apologies that this has been less than useful for package maintainers
> so far.

well, I was puzzled at the delay - I'd been tracking this since the first
report, thinking that getting a package update would be the most reliable
way to duplicate the problem.  Yesterday I downloaded perl 5.18.1 and
built that for testing this problem (as well as verifying that vile's
perl.xs was not affected).

I didn't see any additional fixes (including compiler warnings) that
I should make to cdk-perl, so I marked that as 20130816.  There was
some outage on my ISP yesterday; I've uploaded the version with this
patch.  Later when I'm done with my changes to cdk, I may update this
package for fixes as needed.

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey <dickey at invisible-island.net>
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net
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