Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: News item: Perl 5.26 update

[Kent Fredric]

On Sat, 07 Oct 2017 17:03:44 +0200
"Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@g.o> wrote:

> See plaintext below and identical attached file.
>
>
> =======================================
> Title: Perl 5.26 update: possible breakage
> Author: Andreas K. Hüttel <dilfridge@g.o>
> Posted: xxxxxxx
> Revision: 1
> News-Item-Format: 2.0
> Display-If-Installed: >=dev-lang/perl-5.26.0
>
> You have just upgraded to Perl 5.26. This release brings several
> incompatible changes, also as a consequence of fixing a security
> problem [1]. While we have made sure that all resulting build
> failures within Gentoo are fixed, this may not be the case for
> runtime issues, and certainly can affect third-party code (e.g.,
> "hand-installed" server applications).
>
> Typical errors are
>    "Can't locate inc/... in @INC (you may need to install the inc::...
> module)"
>    "error: ... has no member named ‘op_sibling’"
>    "Unescaped left brace in regex is illegal in ..."
>
> Please see the pages [2,3] for details and report bugs if you run
> into problems during or after the Perl update.
>
> [1] https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127834
>     https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=589680
> [2] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Perl/Dot-In-INC-Removal
> [3] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Perl/5.26_Known_Issues
> =======================================
>
>


Somewhere in here its probably useful to link to
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Perl under the guise of "general update
advice", as it seems many people *still* don't know about this page and
will predictably come to #gentoo asking for help having not seen it.

So ....

> Please see the pages [2,3] for details and report bugs if you run
> into problems during or after the Perl update.
>
> General purpose advice on updating Perl can be found on page [4]

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