perl5-porters@perl.org discussions for March 2009

67	/ext/Time-Piece/t/02core.t

Hello Craig, you have just fixed one problem /ext/Time-Piece/t/02core.t (GIT: d82dd1bcff0c4a6fd34a7b7c69185b1d2823307a) On AIX 5.3 the following part still fails: ../ext/Time-Piece/t/01base.t ...

Rainer Tammer
Mar 27, 2009 at 4:14 pm
Feb 1, 2010 at 9:27 pm

62	Fw: Interesting reads about filesystems

This is a mail on another list, which I cleaned up a bit for perl, as not everything was applicable to perl. Maybe still some things are not, but it is still an interesting read Begin forwarded ...

H.Merijn Brand
Mar 16, 2009 at 8:58 am
Mar 26, 2009 at 7:00 am

29	Encode::MIME::Header since 2.31 uses $& causing regexp performance hit

Argggg! I've just spent 2 days tracking down why something that worked fine on one machine, was crawling to a halt on another. Eventually I bisected it to a change between Encode 2.29 and Encode ...

Rob Mueller
Mar 25, 2009 at 6:37 am
May 22, 2011 at 11:19 am

29	help unblock me from *@perl.org so I can use perlbug

Hi. I'm Dan Jacobson (http:// jidanni DOT org). Can somebody help me get my address, jidanni AT jidanni DOT org unblocked from *@perl.org, so I can submit bugs via perldoc, instead of indirectly via ...

Dan Jacobson
Mar 17, 2009 at 6:37 am
Apr 2, 2009 at 6:21 pm

24	github : git + ssh + firewall help needed

I tried, but was not able to get git + ssh to work from behind a firewall. Does anyone know how to do this?

Jerry D. Hedden
Mar 16, 2009 at 1:45 pm
Mar 20, 2009 at 1:39 pm

19	ext/Module test change ready to pull

A branch containing just the changes to make ext/Module tests run from ext/Module can be found here: http://github.com/schwern/perl/tree/ext_tests All tests pass and its ready to pull. Once it's ...

Michael G Schwern
Mar 15, 2009 at 12:30 am
Apr 20, 2009 at 7:37 pm

17	The smartmatch plan

I just pushed a new branch "smartmatch" intended to gather the changes to the semantics of ~~ and when() for 5.10.1 onwards. See <http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/log/refs/heads/smartmatch . ...

Rafael Garcia-Suarez
Mar 5, 2009 at 8:53 am
Mar 25, 2009 at 6:34 pm

12	Python on LLVM

Thought this was interesting, apologies if it's been covered already. http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/03/google-launches-project-to-boost-python-performance-by-5x.ars ...

Ask Bjørn Hansen
Mar 27, 2009 at 2:42 pm
Mar 31, 2009 at 12:06 pm

11	[perl #64230] sprintf rounding bug

# New Ticket Created by perlquestion # Please include the string: [perl #64230] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Perlquestion
Mar 26, 2009 at 9:23 pm
Mar 29, 2009 at 1:58 pm

11	[PATCH] IO-Compress

This patch assumes the Compress-Raw-Bzip2 patch I posted yesterday has been applied. The big change in this patch is the creation of the IO-Compress distribution that includes IO-Compress-Base, ...

Paul Marquess
Mar 2, 2009 at 8:30 am
Mar 14, 2009 at 11:36 pm

10	[perl #63886] 5.8.9 binary incompatibility: PL_perlio_mutex not initialized

# New Ticket Created by Edward Moy # Please include the string: [perl #63886] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Edward Moy
Mar 14, 2009 at 11:31 pm
Aug 1, 2009 at 9:39 pm

10	Problem with time64.h (perl bleed) on AIX

Hello, there is a problem with bleed on AIX: ./Configure \ -d \ -e \ -Dcc=cc_r \ -Duseshrplib \ -Dusethreads \ -Dusedevel \ -Dprefix=/usr/opt/perl5c_32 .... "time64.h", line 49.11: 1506-343 (S) ...

Rainer Tammer
Mar 3, 2009 at 8:14 am
Mar 27, 2009 at 3:18 pm

10	I can not build blead on VMS - Missing files, NNTP newsgroups not updating.

I can not build blead on VMS after synchronizing with rsync. The files: ext/IO-Compress/MANIFEST lib/perl5db/t/eval-line-bug lib/perl5db/t/lvalue-bug ...

John Malmberg
Mar 21, 2009 at 8:03 pm
Mar 25, 2009 at 4:19 am

10	[BUG] CPANPLUS::Dist::Build + Module::Pluggable test error

I can't tell which module is at fault, but 'make test' in blead spewed out the following: lib/CPANPLUS/Dist/Build/t/02_CPANPLUS-Dist-Build..............Warning: Use of "CORE" without parentheses is ...

Jerry D. Hedden
Mar 3, 2009 at 7:55 pm
Mar 16, 2009 at 6:19 pm

10	Re: [PATCH] Add Compress-Raw-Bzip2

I'm not against this, but do we want a full collection of compression routines in the core ? I imagine that could be useful for CPAN and CPANPLUS, but tar.bz2 distributions are not very common ...

Rafael Garcia-Suarez
Mar 1, 2009 at 11:08 am
Mar 3, 2009 at 10:26 pm

9	[perl #63540] bizarre closure lossage

Binary search: ----Program---- sub memoise { my($evaluate) = @_; my $value; return sub () { #if(0) { $evaluate; } if(defined $evaluate) { $value = $evaluate- (); $evaluate = undef; } return $value; ...

Bram via RT
Mar 12, 2009 at 12:51 am
Mar 30, 2009 at 8:35 pm

8	[perl #64126] ./Configure -de -Dusevendorprefix doesn't default

# New Ticket Created by Nicholas Clark # Please include the string: [perl #64126] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Nicholas Clark
Mar 23, 2009 at 8:26 pm
Jun 14, 2013 at 6:04 am

8	\X is broken

\X is broken. It is only checking for (?:\PM\pM*), but that is incorrect according to the Standard: http://unicode.org/glossary/#combining_character_sequence Combining Character Sequence. A maximal ...

Tom Christiansen
Mar 7, 2009 at 12:22 am
Sep 13, 2009 at 11:32 am

8	Maintenance branches for older perls

The tagged perl releases in the git repo wouldn't build on my "modern" Ubuntu system, so I've created a number of maintenance branches to make building a legacy perl for testing or bug-chasing a bit ...

David Golden
Mar 24, 2009 at 6:15 pm
Mar 25, 2009 at 5:31 pm

8	Ahah! Apple does have different math!

As some of you know, I've been wrestling with programs giving different numeric output when run on the MacBookPro than they do when run other places, and not understanding why/why-not. Damian managed ...

Tom Christiansen
Mar 17, 2009 at 8:34 am
Mar 17, 2009 at 11:14 pm

6	[perl #63674] open() is not UTF-8-clean

# New Ticket Created by Zefram # Please include the string: [perl #63674] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Zefram
Mar 6, 2009 at 11:03 am
Dec 25, 2012 at 8:45 am

6	How is the new localtime() doing?

So how's the new localtime() holding up? I just recently caught up on p5p and saw a remarkably low number of patches having to do with it. I'll get around to integrating them back into y2038 ...

Michael G Schwern
Mar 13, 2009 at 6:13 pm
Mar 15, 2009 at 10:05 am

6	[perl #63854] Error parsing "[~"

# New Ticket Created by ian.goodacre@xtra.co.nz # Please include the string: [perl #63854] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

ian.goodacre@xtra.co.nz (via RT)
Mar 14, 2009 at 5:44 am
Mar 14, 2009 at 10:30 pm

6	[perl #63810] strict refs is inconsistent

# New Ticket Created by Nicholas Clark # Please include the string: [perl #63810] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Nicholas Clark
Mar 12, 2009 at 1:15 pm
Mar 13, 2009 at 3:50 pm

6	Change to run ext/Module tests in ext/Module

I've completed the work so that ext/Module tests are run in ext/Module. Both t/TEST and t/harness work and there's a handy utility program, t/run_test.plx, to allow running individual tests with all ...

Michael G Schwern
Mar 9, 2009 at 1:59 am
Mar 11, 2009 at 11:28 pm

6	gitignore files

I was looking a bit at the .gitignore files under ext/, and it's a bit messy. What I suggest would be : ext/.gitignore to contain generic rules (ignore *.c, blib, etc), and put exceptions and special ...

Rafael Garcia-Suarez
Mar 1, 2009 at 11:18 pm
Mar 2, 2009 at 10:16 am

5	LLVM as a compilation target for Perl

Hi, First off, apologies for posting out of thread. I'm unsubscribed from p5p until I am back in Israel and have more time, and I don't know how to inject in-reply-to using gmail. For this reason ...

Yuval Kogman
Mar 31, 2009 at 3:57 pm
Apr 9, 2009 at 2:15 pm

5	[perl #64228] foreach creates hash elements via aliasing

# New Ticket Created by Jason Noakes # Please include the string: [perl #64228] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Jason Noakes
Mar 26, 2009 at 9:12 pm
Mar 31, 2009 at 8:26 am

5	[perl #63914] Time::Piece reports timezone incorrectly

# New Ticket Created by ian.goodacre@xtra.co.nz # Please include the string: [perl #63914] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

ian.goodacre@xtra.co.nz (via RT)
Mar 16, 2009 at 3:31 am
Mar 30, 2009 at 3:53 am

5	Patch for Time::HiRes Makefile.PL

The Makefile.PL for Time::HiRes in blead has diverged a bit from that on CPAN. The appended patch brings it back into sync, and removes MAN3PODS, which isn't needed any more. Would it be possible to ...

Nicholas Clark
Mar 26, 2009 at 1:45 pm
Mar 28, 2009 at 1:48 pm

5	[PATCH] perlreftut.pod

--- perlreftut-orig.pod Thu Mar 19 16:06:34 2009 +++ perlreftut.pod Thu Mar 19 16:07:14 2009 @@ -67,11 +67,11 @@ reference that you're already familiar with. Think of the President of the United ...

Mjd
Mar 19, 2009 at 8:08 pm
Mar 19, 2009 at 8:51 pm

5	Smoke [5.10.0] maint-5.10-306-gf399cac FAIL(M) MSWin32 WinXP/.Net SP3 (x86/2 cpu)

Automated smoke report for 5.10.0 patch f399cac1256d7e7d3864805b5c7b39e71cf4ccb8 maint-5.10-306-gf399cac maldoror.bath.planit.group: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6700 @ 2.66GHz(~2660 MHz) (x86/2 cpu) on ...

Steve Hay
Mar 11, 2009 at 7:22 pm
Mar 17, 2009 at 7:26 pm

5	Method Cache Invalidation

From 'perldoc perlobj': If a missing method is found in a base class, it is cached in the current class for efficiency. Changing @ISA or defining new subroutines invalidates the cache and causes Perl ...

Ovid
Mar 8, 2009 at 2:47 pm
Mar 8, 2009 at 4:13 pm

4	Patch for Devel::PPPort and IPC::SysV Makefile.PL

In blead, now that we've improved how we're building extensions, we no longer reply on modules' Makefile.PLs to specify an empty MAN3PODS. Hence I've been going through ext/ working out what could be ...

Nicholas Clark
Mar 26, 2009 at 1:50 pm
Mar 7, 2010 at 9:10 pm

4	[perl #64180] $*'s entry in perldiag assumes the reader already knows what it did

# New Ticket Created by naesten@gmail.com # Please include the string: [perl #64180] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

naesten@gmail.com (via RT)
Mar 25, 2009 at 12:55 am
Jun 28, 2009 at 9:55 am

4	[perl #64326] panic: MUTEX_LOCK (22) [op.c:453] in Perl 5.10.0 on Debian

# New Ticket Created by "David F. Skoll" # Please include the string: [perl #64326] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

David F. Skoll
Mar 31, 2009 at 6:38 pm
Apr 22, 2009 at 8:42 pm

4	Re: Perl Critic and (honest) hash references

There is code to do this in the peephole optimiser. For those who don't know, shared hash key scalars store the precomputed U32 hash value. For illustration, I'm going to use pre 5.10, as 5.8.x and ...

Nicholas Clark
Mar 19, 2009 at 4:23 pm
Apr 17, 2009 at 4:50 pm

4	[perl #63678] Reproducable crash when misusing scalar references in Perl 5.10

# New Ticket Created by Olivier Croquette # Please include the string: [perl #63678] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Olivier Croquette
Mar 6, 2009 at 7:05 pm
Apr 15, 2009 at 8:30 pm

4	PATCH: revamped mktables, new Unicode db files, proposed for 10.1

I tried to send out the patch that the subject line talks about, but it failed because it was too large. I don't know how to proceed. Most of the size came from including Unicode db files that are ...

Karl Williamson
Mar 21, 2009 at 3:32 am
Apr 5, 2009 at 2:30 pm

4	[PATCH] IPv6 not fully implemented under Cygwin

Can't use inet_ntop and inet_pton under Cygwin because it doesn't fully implement IPv6 yet.

Jerry D. Hedden
Mar 31, 2009 at 4:21 pm
Apr 1, 2009 at 8:48 pm

4	blead build failure in unicore/PVA.pl

% cd src/perl-git % git pull ... % Configure ... % make ... cc -pthread -Wl,-E -L/usr/local/lib -o miniperl gv.o toke.o perly.o pad.o regcomp.o dump.o util.o mg.o reentr.o mro.o hv.o av.o run.o ...

Tom Christiansen
Mar 30, 2009 at 3:32 pm
Mar 31, 2009 at 4:53 pm

4	CPAN testing with bleadperl

Unfortunately, testing bleadperl with my usual suspects (Plagger, MojoMojo, and Jifty) has not turned out as well as it has in the past. The majority of the problems seem to be related to a failure ...

Steve Peters
Mar 30, 2009 at 7:15 am
Mar 30, 2009 at 2:58 pm

4	Patch for the Makefile.PL of Unicode::Normalize

In blead, now that we've improved how we're building extensions, we no longer reply on modules' Makefile.PLs to specify an empty MAN3PODS. Hence I've been going through ext/ working out what could be ...

Nicholas Clark
Mar 26, 2009 at 1:42 pm
Mar 30, 2009 at 2:36 pm

4	Known issue or design decision? Constant sub redefinition ignores "no warnings 'redefine'"

I checked with the RT queue, but didn't see anything that looked like an open/existing issue on this. Given the following sequence of perl -e invocations: % perl -le 'sub FOO { "foo" } sub FOO { ...

Randy J. Ray
Mar 26, 2009 at 12:10 am
Mar 26, 2009 at 3:06 pm

4	Re: [rt.cpan.org #44493] memory eating 1.72

Hi, Dave, et al, Is this really a bug or is it a matter of lagging to clean up memory from a fast loop that creates and destroys threads?

Jerry D. Hedden
Mar 25, 2009 at 1:41 pm
Mar 26, 2009 at 2:52 am

4	[PATCH] Detection of IPv6 clueful functions by Configure

Attached is a patch for the necessary changes to get the functions getaddrinfo(), getnameinfo(), inet_ntop(), and inet_pton() detected by Configure and to get the proper defines all set. For those ...

Steve Peters
Mar 25, 2009 at 3:55 pm
Mar 25, 2009 at 7:22 pm

4	[PATCH] (maint-5.6) Use sysconf/getpagesize/page.h to determine page size on Linux,

From: Marcus Holland-Moritz <mhx-perl@gmx.net Subject: Re: [PATCH] Various Gentoo Patches Message-Id: <20070812131652.16ca5444@r2d2 p4raw-id: //depot/perl@31702 (cherry picked from commit ...

David Golden
Mar 23, 2009 at 6:59 pm
Mar 23, 2009 at 10:12 pm

4	[PATCH] utf_16_le_bom.yml is binary

utf_16_le_bom.yml appears to be binary, should it instead be .packed, as in the attached patch? Robin <<utf_16_le_bom.patch ------------------------------------------------------------------- This ...

Robin Barker
Mar 18, 2009 at 10:09 pm
Mar 19, 2009 at 7:45 pm

4	What git commands for maint-5.10

I've been reading for days about how to work with perl & git. Can someone tell me if the following commands are correct to simply have a copy of maint-5.10 I can pull from and do nightly builds ...

David Favor
Mar 9, 2009 at 9:08 pm
Mar 11, 2009 at 5:46 pm

4	Re: Rethinking how ext/ is tested

It is done. Or at least, it is demonstratable. http://github.com/schwern/perl/tree/ExtUtils-MakeMaker The effective change to the testing system is rather small. Here you can see it without ...

Michael G Schwern
Mar 4, 2009 at 4:07 am
Mar 8, 2009 at 8:09 pm

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