Bug#577016: perl: FTBFS (experimental/sparc): -Duse64bitint problems?

[Niko Tyni]

On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 01:05:08AM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> Package: perl
> Version: 5.12.0~rc3-1
> Severity: important
> 
> The sparc build had other test failures besides the CPANPLUS ones
> (#577011):
> 
>     ../cpan/bignum/t/bigexp.t
>     op/numconvert.t
>     op/pack.t
>     op/pow.t

> I think the first thing to try is to turn off the new -Duse64bitint
> just for sparc.

Testing on smetana.d.o confirms these are indeed caused by the
-Duse64bitint setting.

It would be good to see hppa, mips* and armel results too, but the
respective buildds haven't picked up those yet.
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org