Bug#708074: libfile-libmagic-perl: FTBFS with perl 5.18: Devel::CheckLib syntax errors

Niko Tyni ntyni at debian.org
Mon May 20 18:57:58 UTC 2013


On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 08:57:07PM +0200, gregor herrmann wrote:
> On Sun, 12 May 2013 23:37:26 +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> 
> > This package FTBFS with perl 5.18 from experimental (in a clean
> > sbuild session):
> > 
> > syntax error at inc/Devel/CheckLib.pm line 163, near "$mm_attr_key qw(LIBS INC)"

> > Devel::CheckLib needs to be upgraded.
> 
> Unfortunately this is not enough; after updating
> inc/Devel/CheckLib.pm, one test fails (silently and somewhere in the
> (XS?) code itself):

The test failure was #708281 in libmagic1 and was fixed today, so the
coast seems clear for now fixing the inc/Devel/CheckLib.pm issue.
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org



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