Bug#618875: perl-modules: "Byte order is not compatible at ../../lib/Storable.pm (...)"

[James Vega]

On Sun, May 08, 2011 at 09:50:42AM +0200, Christoph Biedl wrote:
> Dominic Hargreaves wrote...
> 
> > I can't promise to do anything with it in the near future, but happy
> > to grab a copy of it from somewhere if you can easily make it
> > available, to work on at a later date. Feel free to drop me a line
> > in private if you prefer.
> 
> For the time being I've at least archived that copy.
> 
> FWIW, amd64 is appearently not affected:

That makes sense given that, I think, this is related to the
-Duse64bitint change in the Perl 5.12 packaging.  On 32-bit systems, the
Perl 5.10 packaging wrote out Storable data in such a way that the new
use64bitint Perl 5.12 Storable can't read back in.

If whatever was using Storable had used one of the nstore* functions,
then there's no problem.  It's just a problem when using store*.

  $ perl5.10 -le '
  use Storable qw(store_fd);
  use FileHandle;
  use Data::Dumper;

  $f = FileHandle->new(">storable.test");
  store_fd({Dumper($f)}, $f);'

  $ perl5.12 -le '
  use Storable qw(fd_retrieve);
  use FileHandle;
  use Data::Dumper;

  $f = FileHandle->new("<storable.test");
  print Dumper(fd_retrieve($f));'
  Byte order is not compatible at ../../lib/Storable.pm (autosplit into ../../lib/auto/Storable/fd_retrieve.al) line 398, at -e line 1

-- 
James
GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <jamessan at debian.org>
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