Perl 5.12 repository pushed to Alioth

[Niko Tyni]

On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 05:48:45PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 08:19:35AM +0300, Damyan Ivanov wrote:
> 
> > While not a piece of cake, getting 5.12 iin squeeze doesn't look 
> > impossible. How can we help?
> 
> Well, for starters it would be great if somebody could figure out
> why 5.12.0~rc3-1 fails to build on all the experimental buildds
> when it built fine for me on amd64 / cowbuilder.

It's obvious when you see it: cwd() is only needed as a fallback
for a non-existent HOME, and I believe our buildds use
HOME=/nonexistent or something like that.

> (No bug filed yet AFAIK; feel free to file one. I'm short on time myself.)

It's now #577011, and I just reported the issue upstream.

Now, sparc has other failures too. I guess -Duse64bitint doesn't work
everywhere after all...
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org