On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 9:09 AM Steve Sakoman <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 3:20 PM Joshua Watt <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > I spent some time digging into the build failures that Steve
> > encountered ([1], [2]) when pulling in my patch to make the build fail
> > if Storable.pm wasn't place in an arch specific directory. As it turns
> > out, this may be a false alarm. I dug into the perl code and it
> > appears that this change [3] (introduced for 5.31.3) moved the
> > installation of Storable.pm from the base directory to the arch
> > specific one. By my reading of the code and empirical evidence of
> > diffing the build output, this happens because Storable.pm is no
> > longer explicitly listed to be installed as
> > '$(INST_ARCHLIB)/Storable.pm', and thus defaults to the arch-specific
> > directory. Practically speaking, I believe this means that dunfell
> > (with perl 5.30) should always have Storable.pm in the base lib
> > directory, whereas master (with perl 5.32) should always have
> > Storable.pm in the arch specific directory. I don't have any
> > conclusions about what this means about our intermittent bug, but at a
> > minimum I suspect my patch is not appropriate for dunfell.
>
> This makes sense.  But what puzzles me is that while Fedora and
> Centos builds triggered the directory test failure, Ubuntu and Debian
> builds did not.
>
> Any theories?

That is an excellent question! Can we capture the build output from
one of the builder that passed?

>
> Steve
>
>
> > [1] https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/typhoon/#/builders/79/builds/1245
> > [2] https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/typhoon/#/builders/86/builds/1229
> > [3] 
> > https://github.com/Perl/perl5/commit/95173f94fe0c1b2b943af60e1f6c6e4c47b8a975#diff-03144331fb08a8b04b003b1a49659547L16
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