On Sat, 07 Oct 2017 17:03:44 +0200 "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfri...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> See plaintext below and identical attached file. > > > ======================================= > Title: Perl 5.26 update: possible breakage > Author: Andreas K. Hüttel <dilfri...@gentoo.org> > Posted: xxxxxxx > Revision: 1 > News-Item-Format: 2.0 > Display-If-Installed: >=dev-lang/perl-5.26.0 > > You have just upgraded to Perl 5.26. This release brings several > incompatible changes, also as a consequence of fixing a security > problem [1]. While we have made sure that all resulting build > failures within Gentoo are fixed, this may not be the case for > runtime issues, and certainly can affect third-party code (e.g., > "hand-installed" server applications). > > Typical errors are > "Can't locate inc/... in @INC (you may need to install the inc::... > module)" > "error: ... has no member named ‘op_sibling’" > "Unescaped left brace in regex is illegal in ..." > > Please see the pages [2,3] for details and report bugs if you run > into problems during or after the Perl update. > > [1] https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127834 > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=589680 > [2] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Perl/Dot-In-INC-Removal > [3] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Perl/5.26_Known_Issues > ======================================= > > Somewhere in here its probably useful to link to https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Perl under the guise of "general update advice", as it seems many people *still* don't know about this page and will predictably come to #gentoo asking for help having not seen it. So .... > Please see the pages [2,3] for details and report bugs if you run > into problems during or after the Perl update. > > General purpose advice on updating Perl can be found on page [4] ?
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