Re: install-info vs. perl 5.8
At Thu, 5 Sep 2002 12:35:04 -0500 (CDT),
Adam Heath wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
>
> > [CC me if you reply to debian-dpkg]
> >
> > So... apparently, because of changes in Perl, an existing bug has become
> > much more easily triggered. It won't be fixed without a major regex
> > rewrite. Thus, I think it's reasonable to work around it. The patch even
> > improves the performance of install-info at no loss of functionality...
> >
> > --- /usr/sbin/install-info 2002-07-14 16:19:49.000000000 -0400
> > +++ install-info 2002-09-05 13:08:05.000000000 -0400
> > @@ -146,7 +146,7 @@
> > }
> >
> > close(IF); &checkpipe;
> > - if ($asread =~ m/(\*\s*[^:]+:\s*\(([^\)]+)\).*\. *.*\n){2,}/) {
> > + if ($asread =~ m/(\*\s*[^:]+:\s*\(([^\)]+)\).*\. *.*\n){2}/) {
> > $infoentry= $asread;
> > $multiline= 1;
> > $fileinentry = $2;
> >
> >
> > This changes the value if $fileinentry, potentially, but it's dead on this
> > code path anyway. It'll always be reset in the if (length ($infoentry))
> > block below. Sound reasonable?
>
> Refile this as a bug, and then I'll upload .8.
That sounds nice!
glibc 2.2.9x becomes installable on i386.
-- gotom
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