Ken Moffat wrote: > 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 don't think it's a perl issue. > 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. How long have these packages been using their own version of gnulib? As a developer, I can see why they might want to have control over that package by including their own package and building it into their own packages/libraries. > 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 building glibc again now with the test-installation.pl script left in. I'll investigate more and let you know if I find something new. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
