On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 04:56:06PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote:
> For the moment, please don't treat this as a priority. I've been
> distracted by other things today and am nowhere near confirming that
> it is indeed a perl-5.16 problem. If it isn't caused by perl-5.16,
> then fixing the perl is not the right answer.
>
> OTOH, if anyone is building 32-bit and can keep the glibc source
> and build directories around, testing a change to the perl script
> should only take a few seconds. Oddly, I had to run it from within
> the *source* directory. If I do blame the perl version [ plausible,
> a lot of "baggage" was dropped in 5.16 ], I'll produce instructions
> for changing the file and for how to run it.
>
Bad news, I get the same regex error with perl-5.14.2.
I think that means our build process is no longer adequate for this
version of glibc. So, it removes much of the purpose in running the
testsuites. Perhaps it's a similar issue to Bryan's question about
why packages are now using gnulib instead of our headers (the gets
seds). At the moment, I'm out of my depth.
In passing, I was wrong to say it's a simple thing to test : a
large amount of glibc gets installed before test-installation.pl is
run, and from a situation where nothing of glibc has been installed
I haven't found a shortcut to only installing the minimum necessary
to run the script. I suppose that isn't surprising, it runs as the
*last* part of the install.
I'm attaching a diff for test-installation.pl (it preserves the
formatting of the script, unlike sed where I only managed to add the
first line if I used a line reference for where to add it - too many
special characters), but this certainly isn't going upstream because
I now think it's our bug, not theirs.
ĸen
--
das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce
--- glibc-2.16.0/scripts/test-installation.pl.orig 2012-08-15
19:00:25.131524968 +0100
+++ glibc-2.16.0/scripts/test-installation.pl 2012-08-15 19:17:10.321787792
+0100
@@ -115,6 +115,8 @@
} else {
if (/^ld\.so/) {
($ld_so_name, $ld_so_version)= /=(.*)\.so\.(.*)$/;
+ $ld_so_name =~ s/^\$\(if//;
+ $ld_so_version =~ s/\)$//;
}
}
}
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