Bug#807038: Perl 5.22.1-RC3 is now available!

[Niko Tyni]

On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 10:17:44PM +0000, Steve Hay via perl5-porters wrote:

> ***Please, please, please*** test your code against perl-5.22.1-RC3.
> This is your last chance to point out any critical regressions before
> v5.22.1 ships "for real," and we'd rather fix things for v5.22.1 than
> for v5.22.2!

Hi, we're seeing t/op/sprintf2.t failures on Debian powerpc and ppc64.

 https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=perl&arch=powerpc&ver=5.22.1~rc3-1&stamp=1449230321
 https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=perl&arch=ppc64&ver=5.22.1~rc3-1&stamp=1449231009

I've reproduced these with the pristine 5.22.1-RC3 (no Debian
modifications) and just './Configure -des'.  (Please ignore the 'Commit
id' below, it comes from our separate git repo.)

t/op/sprintf2 ................................................. # Failed test 1463 - at op/sprintf2.t line 671
#      got '0x1p+1020
# '
# expected /(?^:^0x1.0{522}1p\+1020$)/
# Failed test 1464 - at op/sprintf2.t line 673
#      got '0x1p+1021
# '
# expected /(?^:^0x1.0{523}8p\+1021$)/
# Failed test 1465 - at op/sprintf2.t line 675
#      got '0x1p+1022
# '
# expected /(?^:^0x1.0{523}4p\+1022$)/
# Failed test 1466 - at op/sprintf2.t line 677
#      got '0x1p+1023
# '
# expected /(?^:^0x1.0{523}2p\+1023$)/
# Failed test 1467 - at op/sprintf2.t line 679
#      got '0x1p+1023
# '
# expected /(?^:^0x1.0{523}1p\+1023$)/
# Failed test 1468 - at op/sprintf2.t line 681
#      got '0x1p+1023
# '
# expected /(?^:^0x1.0{524}8p\+1023$)/
FAILED at test 1463


% ./perl -Ilib -V           
Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 22 subversion 1) configuration:
  Commit id: 8683e3a63304bb451ebf91256afd91c581a74546
  Platform:
    osname=linux, osvers=3.16.0-4-powerpc64, archname=ppc-linux
    uname='linux partch 3.16.0-4-powerpc64 #1 smp debian 3.16.7-ckt11-1+deb8u6 (2015-11-09) ppc gnulinux '
    config_args='-des'
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    useithreads=undef, usemultiplicity=undef
    use64bitint=undef, use64bitall=undef, uselongdouble=undef
    usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='cc', ccflags ='-fwrapv -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fstack-protector-strong -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64',
    optimize='-O1',
    cppflags='-fwrapv -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fstack-protector-strong -I/usr/local/include'
    ccversion='', gccversion='5.2.1 20151129', gccosandvers=''
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=4321, doublekind=4
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=16, longdblkind=6
    ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8
    alignbytes=8, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='cc', ldflags =' -fstack-protector-strong -L/usr/local/lib'
    libpth=/usr/local/lib /usr/lib/gcc/powerpc-linux-gnu/5/include-fixed /usr/include/powerpc-linux-gnu /usr/lib /lib/powerpc-linux-gnu /lib/../lib /usr/lib/powerpc-linux-gnu /usr/lib/../lib /lib
    libs=-lpthread -lnsl -lgdbm -ldb -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lc -lgdbm_compat
    perllibs=-lpthread -lnsl -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lc
    libc=libc-2.21.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
    gnulibc_version='2.21'
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-Wl,-E'
    cccdlflags='-fPIC', lddlflags='-shared -O1 -L/usr/local/lib -fstack-protector-strong'


Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): 
  Compile-time options: HAS_TIMES PERLIO_LAYERS PERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV
                        PERL_HASH_FUNC_ONE_AT_A_TIME_HARD PERL_MALLOC_WRAP
                        PERL_NEW_COPY_ON_WRITE PERL_PRESERVE_IVUV
                        USE_LARGE_FILES USE_LOCALE USE_LOCALE_COLLATE
                        USE_LOCALE_CTYPE USE_LOCALE_NUMERIC USE_LOCALE_TIME
                        USE_PERLIO USE_PERL_ATOF
  Locally applied patches:
    RC3
  Built under linux
  Compiled at Dec  4 2015 12:20:55
  @INC:
    lib
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.22.1/ppc-linux
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.22.1
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.22.1/ppc-linux
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.22.1

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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org