[arch-dev-public] perl-5.12.2 rebuild list?

[K. Piche]

On Sat, 2010-12-04 at 01:14 +1000, Allan McRae wrote:
> On 03/12/10 12:18, K. Piche wrote:
> > On Mon, 2010-11-29 at 11:36 +1000, Allan McRae wrote:
> >> On 24/11/10 12:56, Allan McRae wrote:
> >>> On 23/11/10 11:25, Allan McRae wrote:
> >>>> Hi,
> >>>>
> >>>> Can we get some details of what the perl-5.12.2 rebuild list is for? Its
> >>>> description is "Build modules that have binary modules in them" but
> >>>> surely there is binary compatibility between 5.12.1 and 5.12.2... Or
> >>>> have the expected paths for binaries changed again?
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> Ping Kevin... I see you are doing some rebuilds now!
> >>>
> >>
> >> And again...  you might actually get help with the rebuild if we knew
> >> why we were rebuilding.
> >
> > It's just the way it sounds.  If a perl module has *.so files it needs
> > to be rebuilt.  You'd think there was binary compatibility but the
> > perl/C XS interface seems to always change each release - maybe how
> > external libraries interface to intrinsic data types, dunno.
> 
> Wow!  They seriously break that on minor bugfix releases?  That is 
> amazingly... um...  lets go for crappy.

I don't think the binary API breaks but sometimes the XS .so modules
don't work with newer perl's.  I tested perl-bit-vector with 5.12.2 and
it didn't work until I rebuilt it.

> But are you sure all these needed rebuilt?  I had [staging] enabled in 
> my pacman.conf by accident a while back and installed perl-5.12.2. 
> Admittedly I do not use much perl, but I had no noticeable issue playing 
> games using sdl_perl (e.g. frozen-bubble) which is included on the 
> rebuildlist.

Perhaps not all of them but then I would have to test them all and I'd
rather just rebuild.  A side benefit of this particular rebuild is that
a lot of the the packages didn't have .so's so I was able to switch them
to "any".  Less to build next time.

> > There's been a rebuild every release only this is the first time I
> > bothered with an official todo because someone mentioned it last time.
> > Some non-binary modules will need to be rebuilt later due to scriptdir
> > path changes but it's not critical.
>  >
> > Help or not it doesn't matter to me - I'll get to them all eventually.
> 
> It is definitely good to have a TODO list this time round.  But a 
> message to arch-dev-public and aur-general explaining the rebuild 
> normally gets you a bunch of help and the rebuild done in a matter of days.

It'd be faster if I hadn't bought Fallout: New Vegas too.  :)

> Allan

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