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

[Niko Tyni]

On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 09:29:23AM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> 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 turns out that setting uselongdouble too (known together as
usemorebits) makes the failures go away on smetana, so that's what I
intend to try for 5.12.0-1.
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org