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

[Niko Tyni]

On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 02:08:01PM -0600, Craig A. Berry wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 12:24 PM, Niko Tyni <ntyni at debian.org> wrote:

> > doublekind='4'; looks like those tests get run only on linux
> > with that doublekind.
> 
> Right.  I hadn't noticed the linux-only part before.  These tests came
> in with a fix for a problem reported on Debian PPC64:
> 
> <http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commit/5488d3733162ee806bb5f5c55694e8beaaf7b1cc?f=t/op/sprintf2.t>
> 
> <https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=125633>
> 
> To me the configuration in that ticket looks awfully similar to the
> configuration that now sees test failures, but I could be missing
> something.

The difference was that we don't use -Duselongdouble. 

Jarkko says the tests were only intended for long double configurations
and has added more skip conditions with
 http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commit/df3d8cc3eeca597a21c2d7ad7686adbef4df784b

I've tested that this works for us.
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org