Bug#825018: perl: FTBFS on hurd-i386: hardcoded E2BIG errno value

[Dominic Hargreaves]

Control: severity -1 minor
Control: retitle -1 perl: flawed test: hardcoded E2BIG errno value

On Sun, May 29, 2016 at 02:23:52AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Dominic Hargreaves, on Sat 28 May 2016 16:50:41 +0100, wrote:
> > print "errno 7 stringifies to '$!'\n";
> > dom at exodar:~$ ./test.pl 
> > errno 7 stringifies to '(os/kern) not receiver'
> > 
> > but because that error message is also long enough, the test passes.
> > Can you shed any more light about how to reproduce this test failure?
> 
> Ah, that was most probably another consequence of #825020, giving me "7"
> (thus too short) instead of the error message.

Aha, that makes sense. So I've retitled and downgraded the bug
appropriately since it shouldn't now be the cause of a FTBFS. I'll
forward upstream - the test is clearly buggy (in at least two regards,
one of which cancels out the other).

Cheers,
Dominic.