perl5-porters@perl.org discussions for March 2012

39	pop @INC (".")

We're planning on patching "." out of the @INC path for the perl we're about to build and distribute. I'm finding this change causes the test suite to blow up in all sorts of interesting ways. My ...

Todd Rinaldo
Mar 8, 2012 at 7:39 pm
Mar 12, 2012 at 7:45 pm

37	[perl #111500] Bleadperl v5.15.7-88-g7e4f045 breaks MLEHMANN/common-sense-3.4.tar.gz

# New Ticket Created by (Andreas J. Koenig) # Please include the string: [perl #111500] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Andreas J. Koenig) (via RT
Mar 2, 2012 at 11:02 pm
Mar 12, 2012 at 3:19 am

25	[perl #112054] F:S->catdir goes wrong with double slash

# New Ticket Created by Zefram # Please include the string: [perl #112054] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL ...

Zefram
Mar 27, 2012 at 2:25 pm
Mar 31, 2012 at 11:25 am

23	[perl #111462] refcount warnings from C<use strict> C<our %FIELDS>

# New Ticket Created by Robin Barker # Please include the string: [perl #111462] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Robin Barker
Mar 1, 2012 at 1:18 pm
Jun 29, 2012 at 7:33 am

21	[perl #107008] UTF8 patches for 5.16

I’m sorry I’ve done nothing about this lately. I was planning to work on it the past two months, but various things in Real Life got in the way, and when one thing finished and I thought I was going ...

Father Chrysostomos via RT
Mar 22, 2012 at 1:04 am
Dec 14, 2013 at 2:04 am

21	Why isn't copy() a builtin?

So I was reading this post about basic file manipulation functions: http://szabgab.com/how-to-remove-copy-or-rename-a-file-with-perl.html It seems odd to me that CORE::rename is not portable, but ...

Jeffrey Thalhammer
Mar 8, 2012 at 6:54 am
Mar 16, 2012 at 12:46 pm

16	maint-5.14, maint-5.12: speak now or forever...

A reading from L<perlpolicy : To the best of our ability, we will attempt to fix critical issues in the two most recent stable 5.x release series. Fixes for the current release series take precedence ...

Ricardo Signes
Mar 6, 2012 at 3:46 pm
Mar 17, 2012 at 8:41 am

12	[perl #111856] use overload fallback = 0 doesn't seem to always work

# New Ticket Created by karl williamson # Please include the string: [perl #111856] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL ...

Karl williamson
Mar 20, 2012 at 1:12 am
May 23, 2012 at 4:09 pm

11	File::Glob broken?

I just (tried to) build perl5 on the recently installed HP-UX 11.23 git check-out and configure went smooth tests fail because of a File::Glob fail: p5p-hpux:/perl/perl 118 ./perl -Ilib -wc ...

H.Merijn Brand
Mar 15, 2012 at 12:49 pm
Apr 17, 2012 at 4:37 pm

11	5.15.8: Global destruction phase slow?

I observed that a CPAN shell takes much longer to quit under 5.15.8 than in previous stable perl versions. To reproduce, just try: $ time /opt/perl-5.15.8/bin/cpan5.15.8 -A CPAN [...] CPAN ANDK ...

Slaven Rezic
Mar 5, 2012 at 8:46 pm
Apr 1, 2012 at 5:12 pm

10	Hanging tests

I find that several tests keep hanging when I run the full test suite "manually" (i.e. typing "nmake test" in a Command Prompt), the first of which is cpan/CPANPLUS/t/19_CPANPLUS-Dist.t. Strangely, ...

Steve Hay
Mar 28, 2012 at 3:09 pm
Aug 24, 2012 at 7:30 am

10	deprecate #line 1 side effects?

Is it a good idea to deprecate the wonderful ability of "#line 1" to cause toke.c to re-process #!perl lines? ie apply this: diff --git a/Porting/perl5160delta.pod b/Porting/perl5160delta.pod index ...

Nicholas Clark
Mar 16, 2012 at 2:05 pm
Apr 8, 2012 at 8:54 pm

10	dmake test error

Hi, I was trying out the instructions in perlhack on how to get started and wanted to see if the "./Configure ... ; make test" part would work. It didn't and after a little googling on the error ...

Offer Kaye
Mar 2, 2012 at 11:33 pm
Mar 15, 2012 at 10:23 am

10	autodie handles (was Re: Perl 5 philosophy: DWIM or die?)

I'd say start with it as an IO::Handle attribute and see if it can be implemented cleanly. Then, if so, having autodie switch it on for all handles returned in the lexical scope of autodie is a ...

David Golden
Mar 5, 2012 at 7:16 pm
Mar 6, 2012 at 6:31 pm

9	[perl #100450] perl 5.14.2 test suite failures on x86_64-sun-solaris2.10

The original post included the full output of 't/harness', which was too big for RT to display. Hence, this ticket did not get the attention it deserved. Let me try to boil it down. [snip] Let's go ...

James E Keenan via RT
Mar 24, 2012 at 2:09 am
Jul 23, 2012 at 11:27 pm

9	[perl #112164] stat() warns about unopened filehandle on tied handles

# New Ticket Created by David Golden # Please include the string: [perl #112164] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL ...

David Golden
Mar 31, 2012 at 4:19 pm
May 17, 2012 at 3:52 pm

9	[perl #111656] tie_fetch_count.t broken on VMS since 5668452f0

# New Ticket Created by Craig A. Berry # Please include the string: [perl #111656] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Craig A . Berry
Mar 9, 2012 at 11:35 pm
Mar 27, 2012 at 12:34 pm

9	Perl 5 philosophy: DWIM or die?

In several threads over the past few months, I've seen suggestions like "Perl should die if $dubious_condition happens". (Latest example, reading a fixed number of bytes with $/ on multi-byte data.) ...

David Golden
Mar 5, 2012 at 4:18 pm
Mar 11, 2012 at 8:33 pm

8	Perl 5 Commit Summary

Perl 5 commit summary, activity since Wednesday Current branch blead 10 commits. 6 unique authors. 5 unique committers. 11 files changed, 85 insertions(+), 50 deletions(-) Thanks, applied: Ricardo ...

Perl 5 commit summary
Mar 3, 2012 at 2:08 am
Mar 31, 2012 at 1:08 am

8	new version of perlglossary

Here's a new version of perlglossary.pod, derived directly from the 4th edition of Programming Perl. I made no attempt to integrate the existing manpage, nor make it massively hyperlinked. NB: This ...

Tom Christiansen
Mar 19, 2012 at 7:04 pm
Mar 26, 2012 at 11:27 am

8	[perl #111654] [Regression] "die;" does not always propagate exception

That’s a pretty nasty regression. Can we make this a blocker for 5.16? -- Father Chrysostomos --- via perlbug: queue: perl5 status: new https://rt.perl.org:443/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=111654

Father Chrysostomos via RT
Mar 9, 2012 at 9:10 pm
Mar 15, 2012 at 11:53 pm

8	time() Unixish everywhere?

The Time::Unix module exists to provide a time() sub that uses the Unix epoch regardless of platform convention. Currently, the only OS it knows about that needs any adjustment is Mac OS classic, but ...

Zefram
Mar 5, 2012 at 4:03 pm
Mar 5, 2012 at 6:34 pm

7	[rt.cpan.org #72700] [perl #104462] [PATCH] Copy&paste List::Util BOOT bug, reading past 2 bytes

<URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72700 What's up? Still a critical CORE bug with a patch. May I take over? sanitizer/clang_build_Linux/Release+Asserts/bin/clang' asan@a7d2e0/CORE' ...

Reini Urban via RT
Mar 6, 2012 at 5:35 pm
Apr 9, 2012 at 1:10 pm

7	Please vote for these candidates for 5.14.3

I'm trying to make it easy to vote for these patches to get into 5.14.3. Please consider and +1 these commits, arranged in my priority order: Panic with \b and /aa ...

Karl Williamson
Mar 17, 2012 at 5:08 pm
Mar 20, 2012 at 4:14 pm

7	Wat is en Dampfmaschin? Da stelle mer uns janz dumm.

Hello Perl 5 Porters, I would like to suggest a short little game for each of you to play, with the ultimate goal of helping the Perl 5 core development gain some knowledge. This mail was triggered ...

Christian Walde
Mar 2, 2012 at 7:13 pm
Mar 13, 2012 at 8:59 pm

6	[perl #94846] Perl crash due to wrong delimiter in PATH env

Steve, do you have any news on this? --- via perlbug: queue: perl5 status: open https://rt.perl.org:443/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=94846

Ricardo SIGNES via RT
Mar 23, 2012 at 1:50 am
Feb 4, 2013 at 8:54 am

6	Smoke [blead] v5.15.8-91-gacdbe25 FAIL(XF) linux 3.0.0-15-generic [debian] (x86_64/8 cpu)

Smoke logs available at http://m-l.org/~perl/smoke/perl/ Automated smoke report for 5.15.8 patch acdbe25bd91bf897e0cf373b91ab0814e21c4860 v5.15.8-91-gacdbe25 zwei: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 920 @ ...

George Greer
Mar 10, 2012 at 6:35 pm
Dec 11, 2012 at 7:19 pm

6	[perl #111936] Storable - storing 'code' test failure

Perl 5.8.5 is no longer supported. Can you try this with the current supported version of Perl, 5.14.2? If you install that, you will probably also get Storable version 2.34 along with it. Thank you ...

James E Keenan via RT
Mar 24, 2012 at 1:05 am
Jun 6, 2012 at 7:37 pm

6	[perl #111638] File::stat -p overload is broken

# New Ticket Created by l.mai@web.de # Please include the string: [perl #111638] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

L . mai @ web . de
Mar 8, 2012 at 11:16 pm
May 22, 2012 at 4:48 pm

6	[perl #111338] Warnings in utf8 subcategories do nothing in isolation

I applied your patch to blead, commit 920e47bbc431efd5c1ca9d8b85fb88c172326b14 but changing the tests to TODOs to avoid them failing blead Are there objections to fixing this in 5.16? It is to just ...

Karl Williamson via RT
Mar 4, 2012 at 7:29 pm
Apr 17, 2012 at 8:12 pm

6	maint-5.14, cherry pick, conflicts

As promised, today I went through commits for which we've gotten votes and upvoted them in cherrymaint. Quite a few reached the +3 and so I cherry picked a dozen of them. Quite a few of them did not ...

Ricardo Signes
Mar 21, 2012 at 1:59 am
Mar 26, 2012 at 3:21 pm

6	perl5.git.perl.org is down - unintental hardware enforced code freeze

It seems that connectivity to perl5.git.perl.org was lost about 06:26 this morning. Hence http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git is unreachable. It seems to be a connectivity problem, not a problem with ...

Nicholas Clark
Mar 21, 2012 at 6:54 am
Mar 21, 2012 at 12:41 pm

5	[perl #111682] Perl does not print a UTF-8 string correctly even though it recognizes it to be equal to a correctly printed UTF-8 string

# New Ticket Created by Matti Linnanvuori # Please include the string: [perl #111682] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Matti Linnanvuori
Mar 12, 2012 at 7:52 am
Jun 6, 2012 at 7:35 pm

5	[perl #72784] [META] misuse of I32

As a general issue for testing this type of bug - we need to allocate significant amounts of memory (2Gb or much more in some cases) to regression test this type of bug, which would be unfriendly in ...

Tony Cook via RT
Mar 14, 2012 at 5:46 am
May 22, 2012 at 12:55 am

5	Error handling in one-liners

Hi, let me start with this question: Does anyone know the difference between these two commands: perl -i -plwe 's/foo/bar/' file sed -i 's/foo/bar/' file One hint: Would you use it on a production ...

Christoph Bußenius
Mar 24, 2012 at 5:48 pm
Apr 3, 2012 at 12:33 pm

5	[perl #111864] -X overloads in File::stat return a list

# New Ticket Created by Tony Cook # Please include the string: [perl #111864] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL ...

Tony Cook
Mar 20, 2012 at 8:18 am
Mar 29, 2012 at 7:14 am

5	[perl #111982] caller() gives wrong line num inside __DIE__

# New Ticket Created by Father Chrysostomos # Please include the string: [perl #111982] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL ...

Father Chrysostomos
Mar 25, 2012 at 8:13 pm
Mar 27, 2012 at 4:49 pm

5	Pod::HTML a victim of volume capitalization

I kept wondering why Pod::HTML was failing the feature.t and htmldir3.t tests then I remembered that recent smoke-me runs from my VM haven't also failed those tests. The only (known) difference ...

George Greer
Mar 18, 2012 at 3:29 am
Mar 19, 2012 at 5:50 pm

5	Re: [perl.git] branch blead, updated. v5.15.8-106-gb3762c4

This breaks g++ builds. Tony

Tony Cook
Mar 13, 2012 at 3:58 am
Mar 19, 2012 at 10:08 am

5	Param::Utils breaks `` on Cygwin , broken on perl-5.14.1, broken on blead, possible blocker, prevents installing Moose.

You're going to possibly hate me if my suspicions are true. https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75672 Simply having Param::Utils loaded anywhere in code prior to invoking `` renders `` broken, ...

Kent Fredric
Mar 10, 2012 at 4:54 pm
Mar 12, 2012 at 6:56 am

5	Re: [perl #111586] [PATCH] sdbm.c: fix off-by-one access to global ".dir"

The attached patch is better, without the temp. comment at the code line in question. On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 1:53 PM, rurban@cpanel.net wrote: -- Reini Urban http://cpanel.net/ ...

Reini Urban
Mar 6, 2012 at 8:03 pm
Mar 9, 2012 at 4:23 pm

4	[perl #111730] Negative offset to vec in lvalue context

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Pm . 20 . browseruk @ xoxy . net
Mar 13, 2012 at 7:34 pm
May 22, 2012 at 12:57 am

4	[perl #112112] porting/checkAUTHORS.pl --authors parameter doesn't work (and is incorrectly documented)

# New Ticket Created by Matthew Horsfall # Please include the string: [perl #112112] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL ...

Matthew Horsfall
Mar 29, 2012 at 3:40 pm
Apr 9, 2012 at 2:54 pm

4	[perl #55550] 'once' warnings from xs modules in perl 5.10.0

Does this problem still exist in, say, Perl 5.14? If so, could we get a code sample that we could reproduce with just core Perl? Thank you very much. Jim Keenan --- via perlbug: queue: perl5 status ...

James E Keenan via RT
Mar 30, 2012 at 11:46 pm
Mar 31, 2012 at 5:27 pm

4	[perl #111980] UTF8 changes allow lexical punct vars

# New Ticket Created by Father Chrysostomos # Please include the string: [perl #111980] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL ...

Father Chrysostomos
Mar 25, 2012 at 8:12 pm
Mar 26, 2012 at 8:21 am

4	[perl #111782] ExtUtils-CBuilder on Windows does not embed manifests

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Samuel . Ferencik @ barclayscapital . com
Mar 15, 2012 at 9:42 am
Mar 20, 2012 at 1:19 pm

4	[perl #111842] "x" =~ /\A(?>(?:(?:)A\|B\|C?x))\z/; no longer matches in blead

# New Ticket Created by Nicholas Clark # Please include the string: [perl #111842] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Nicholas Clark
Mar 19, 2012 at 11:36 am
Mar 20, 2012 at 11:25 am

3	[perl #26001] Problem compiling perl 5.9.0

[snip] Have you been able to compile Perl from source since this original report? If not, which versions of Perl? Which versions of GCC or other C compiler? Which OS? Thank you very much. Jim Keenan ...

James E Keenan via RT
Mar 31, 2012 at 1:10 am
Apr 18, 2012 at 2:34 pm

3	[PATCH] Test patch for version 0.97

I had some isolated test failures with 0.96 from BSDish systems with limited locales installed. The attached patch brings bleadperl in line with the CPAN 0.97 release. I'd like to see it get into ...

John Peacock
Mar 29, 2012 at 2:22 am
Apr 10, 2012 at 2:20 pm

3	Re: [perl.git] branch tonyc/vec64, created. v5.15.9-30-g4dd9a80

Personally I think it is worth changing, I'd guess to unsigned int, given that it is intended to hold an unsigned value that doesn't need to be more than 16 bits. That way, it's one less I32 in the ...

Nicholas Clark
Mar 26, 2012 at 2:43 pm
Apr 2, 2012 at 1:32 am

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