On Sat, 2010-12-04 at 01:14 +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > On 03/12/10 12:18, K. Piche wrote: > > On Mon, 2010-11-29 at 11:36 +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > >> On 24/11/10 12:56, Allan McRae wrote: > >>> On 23/11/10 11:25, Allan McRae wrote: > >>>> Hi, > >>>> > >>>> Can we get some details of what the perl-5.12.2 rebuild list is for? Its > >>>> description is "Build modules that have binary modules in them" but > >>>> surely there is binary compatibility between 5.12.1 and 5.12.2... Or > >>>> have the expected paths for binaries changed again? > >>>> > >>> > >>> Ping Kevin... I see you are doing some rebuilds now! > >>> > >> > >> And again... you might actually get help with the rebuild if we knew > >> why we were rebuilding. > > > > It's just the way it sounds. If a perl module has *.so files it needs > > to be rebuilt. You'd think there was binary compatibility but the > > perl/C XS interface seems to always change each release - maybe how > > external libraries interface to intrinsic data types, dunno. > > Wow! They seriously break that on minor bugfix releases? That is > amazingly... um... lets go for crappy.
I don't think the binary API breaks but sometimes the XS .so modules don't work with newer perl's. I tested perl-bit-vector with 5.12.2 and it didn't work until I rebuilt it. > But are you sure all these needed rebuilt? I had [staging] enabled in > my pacman.conf by accident a while back and installed perl-5.12.2. > Admittedly I do not use much perl, but I had no noticeable issue playing > games using sdl_perl (e.g. frozen-bubble) which is included on the > rebuildlist. Perhaps not all of them but then I would have to test them all and I'd rather just rebuild. A side benefit of this particular rebuild is that a lot of the the packages didn't have .so's so I was able to switch them to "any". Less to build next time. > > There's been a rebuild every release only this is the first time I > > bothered with an official todo because someone mentioned it last time. > > Some non-binary modules will need to be rebuilt later due to scriptdir > > path changes but it's not critical. > > > > Help or not it doesn't matter to me - I'll get to them all eventually. > > It is definitely good to have a TODO list this time round. But a > message to arch-dev-public and aur-general explaining the rebuild > normally gets you a bunch of help and the rebuild done in a matter of days. It'd be faster if I hadn't bought Fallout: New Vegas too. :) > Allan -- K. Piche <kpi...@rogers.com>
