Re: dpkg changes and queries - the answers to your questions

[branderh@iaehv.nl (Erick Branderhorst)]

> 5. I don't understand the problem with WIFSIGNALED, but this is
> definitely a bug in the Perl installation and not in dpkg-source.

So the WIFSIGNALED thing has to do with perl.  Here is some about the
perl I have installed on my system.

Erick

$ dpkg --status perl
Package: perl
Status: install ok installed
Priority: important
Section: devel
Maintainer: Darren Stalder <torin@daft.com>
Source: perl
Version: 5.003-2
Pre-Depends: libc5, libgdbm1, libdb1
Recommends: libc5-dev
Description: Larry Wall's Practical Extracting and Report Language.
 An interpreted scripting language, known among some as "Unix's
 Swiss Army Chainsaw".
 .
 Perl is optimized for scanning arbitrary text files and system 
 administration. It has built-in extended regular expression matching
 and replacement, a dataflow mechanism to improve security with
 setuid scripts and is extendible via modules that can interface
 to C libraries.

$ ls -l /bin/perl
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           15 Jul  3 11:29 /bin/perl -> ../usr/bin/perl
$ /usr/bin/perl -v

This is perl, version 5.003 with EMBED
	built under linux at Jul  1 1996 10:21:20
	+ suidperl security patch

Copyright 1987-1996, Larry Wall

Perl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License or the
GNU General Public License, which may be found in the Perl 5.0 source kit.

$ /usr/bin/perl -V
Summary of my perl5 (5.0 patchlevel 3 subversion 0) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=linux, osver=2.0.0, archname=i486-linux
    uname='linux perv 2.0.0 #2 tue jun 11 01:31:01 pdt 1996 i486 '
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
  Compiler:
    cc='cc', optimize='-O2 -fomit-frame-pointer', gccversion=2.7.2
    cppflags='-Dbool=char -DHAS_BOOL -I/usr/include/db -I/usr/local/include'
    ccflags ='-Dbool=char -DHAS_BOOL -I/usr/include/db -I/usr/local/include'
    stdchar='char', d_stdstdio=define, usevfork=false
    voidflags=15, castflags=0, d_casti32=define, d_castneg=define
    intsize=4, alignbytes=4, usemymalloc=n, randbits=31
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
    libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib
    libs=-lndbm -lgdbm -ldbm -ldb -ldl -ldld -lm -lc
    libc=/lib/libc.so.5.2.18, so=so
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=, ccdlflags='-rdynamic'
    cccdlflags='-fpic', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib'

@INC: /usr/lib/perl5/i486-linux/5.003 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/local/lib/site_perl/i486-linux /usr/local/lib/site_perl .
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