Bug#1078152: libtickit-console-perl: FTBFS with Perl 5.40: Out of memory in perl:util:safesysmalloc

[Niko Tyni]

Control: reassign -1 perl 5.40.0-1

On Wed, Aug 07, 2024 at 03:57:06PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> Package: libtickit-console-perl
> Version: 0.12-1
> Severity: important
> User: debian-perl at lists.debian.org
> Usertags: perl-5.40-transition
> 
> This package fails to build from source with Perl 5.40 (currently in
> experimental.)

>   Out of memory in perl:util:safesysmalloc
>   # Tests were run but no plan was declared and done_testing() was not seen.
>   # Looks like your test exited with 1 just after 1.
>   t/06timestamp.t .... 
>   # Seeded srand with seed '20240804' from local date.
>   ok 1 - Display after tab->append_line with timestamp
>   Dubious, test returned 1 (wstat 256, 0x100)

This boils down to

  $ perl -MPOSIX=strftime -e 'strftime((bless {}, 'Foo'), localtime());'
  Out of memory in perl:util:safesysmalloc

It regressed in 5.39.8 with

  https://github.com/Perl/perl5/commit/1957c60d0591397316cff390fd9a8419e8bd09fb

and still happens on current upstream development branch (blead).

I'll report this upstream next.
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org