Source: perl Version: 5.30.0-2 Severity: important Tags: upstream User: debian-p...@lists.debian.org Usertags: perl-5.30-transition X-Debbugs-Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de>
As discussed in the thread at https://alioth-lists.debian.net/pipermail/perl-maintainers/2019-June/006711.html https://alioth-lists.debian.net/pipermail/perl-maintainers/2019-July/006713.html Perl fails to build under qemu-user with Configure -Dmksymlinks because $0 contains an absolute path there and the build machinery can't deal with that. This can be reproduced under for instance qemu-armhf with mkdir b && cd b && ../Configure -des -Dmksymlinks resulting in lots of 'Permission denied' errors when extracting cflags.SH because the script mistakes the shell absolute path for its argument and tries to write in the same directory where the shell resides. An even simpler reproducer is touch config.sh && sh < cflags.SH This is not specific to Perl 5.30, our packaging just started to use -Dmksymlinks there and triggered the issue. I'm not sure yet where this should be fixed. I'd like to avoid reverting the -Dmksymlinks part introduced in 5.30.0-2 as I think enabling parallel builds was an improvement. But we'll see. This should possibly be considered a Perl 5.30 transition blocker as at least some Debian ports (m68k, sh4) use qemu-user for buildds. Adding the usertag for now. -- Niko Tyni nt...@debian.org
