On Mon, 18 Sep 2017 11:19:08 +0200, "H.Merijn Brand" <h.m.br...@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> Makefile.PL states MIN_PERL_VERSION => '5.008', so I am still in the > supported range. > > My cause for digging is > > Tie-Hash-DBD-0.16: > - x86_64-linux-ld / 5.8.8: > - FAIL > http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/b06ed2c0-9b4b-11e7-b9b4-ee532540c4eb > > When I wanted to make sure it is not already fixed by module > updatesperl5.8.8 Makefile.PL > > (and my requirements are too low), I noticed This is fixed by updating Storable, so the minimum requirement for Storable's version is too low (or in our case, not required at all) -- showing just stable perl versions and Storable version updates ... $ corelist -a Storable v5.8.0 2.04 v5.8.1 2.08 v5.8.3 2.09 v5.8.4 2.12 v5.8.5 2.13 v5.8.8 2.15 v5.8.9 2.19 v5.10.0 2.18 v5.10.1 2.20 v5.12.0 2.22 v5.14.0 2.27 v5.16.0 2.34 v5.18.0 2.41 v5.20.0 2.49 v5.22.0 2.53 v5.26.0 2.62 Working from there ... perl-5.8.8 with Storable 2.15 failed perl-5.8.8 with Storable 2.51 passes perl-5.8.9 with Storable 2.19 passes So I'd suggest to make Storable version 2.19 a minimal requirement: --8<--- diff --git a/Makefile.PL b/Makefile.PL index 4a58334..ee11d00 100644 --- a/Makefile.PL +++ b/Makefile.PL @@ -76,6 +76,7 @@ my %opts = ( }, }, PREREQ_PM => { + 'Storable' => 2.16, ( $^O eq 'MSWin32' ? ( 'File::Spec' => 3.31, ) : () ), }, CONFLICTS => { -->8--- Agree? Reading Storable changelog, that makes sense, as the failing tests involved dclone: --8<--- Sat Mar 31 06:11:06 IST 2007 Abhijit Menon-Sen <a...@toroid.org> Version 2.16 1. Fixes to Storable::dclone, read_magic, retrieve_lscalar 2. Storable 0.1 compatibility 3. Miscellaneous compile/leak/test/portability fixes -->8--- > $ perl5.8.8 Makefile.PL > : > : > $ make > : > : > $ make test > : > t/06attrs.t ..................... 1/? > # Failed test 'Can set sth NAME' > # at t/06attrs.t line 263. > > # Failed test 'Can set sth NAME_lc' > # at t/06attrs.t line 263. > > # Failed test 'Can set sth NAME_uc' > # at t/06attrs.t line 263. > > # Failed test 'Can set sth NAME_hash' > # at t/06attrs.t line 263. > > # Failed test 'Can set sth NAME_lc_hash' > # at t/06attrs.t line 263. > > # Failed test 'Can set sth NAME_uc_hash' > # at t/06attrs.t line 263. > # Looks like you failed 6 tests of 163. > t/06attrs.t ..................... Dubious, test returned 6 (wstat 1536, 0x600) > Failed 6/163 subtests -- H.Merijn Brand http://tux.nl Perl Monger http://amsterdam.pm.org/ using perl5.00307 .. 5.27 porting perl5 on HP-UX, AIX, and openSUSE http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org/ http://qa.perl.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/
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