Re: release in 2.2?
In the last mail Philip Blundell said:
> >For perl 5.005_03 compiled with egcs 1.1.1 with glibc2.1 I found 4 perl
> >regression tests that failed:
> >
> >lib/anydbm.t C lib db implementation doesn't like "" keys
> >io/pipe.t, op/fork.t StrongARM K bug bites
> >op/groups.t C lib doesn't realise that sizeof(gid_t) in the kernel
> > is 16 bit.
>
> The latter of these should be fixed in the latest glibc, though I don't
> offhand know what version Debian are currently using. I think we agreed
> that the former was a Perl testsuite problem rather than a bug.
I'm not sure who the "we" is, but perl expecting db implementation to take
zero length keys, and DB's dislike of this is a problem known to the perl
maintainers.
It seems that I'm one of the few people on perl5-porters running a glibc2.1
linux system :-)
Nick
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