Re: can't install on solaris :(

Brian Tingle <Brian.Tingle <at> ucop.edu> writes:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> Something happened between libwww-perl-5.834 and libwww-perl-5.835 that
> broke this module for my env on solaris.

Having the same problem here with libwww-perl-5.836.

base/message..............ok 124/125# Test 125 got: <UNDEF> (base/message.t at
line 508)
#     Expected: '<?xml version="1.0"?>
<root>�ric</root>
'
#  base/message.t line 508 is:     ok($m->decoded_content, "<?xml
version=\"1.0\"?>\n<root>\xC9ric</root>\n");
base/message..............FAILED test 125
        Failed 1/125 tests, 99.20% okay

# perl -V
Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 8 subversion 4) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=solaris, osvers=2.10, archname=sun4-solaris-64int
    uname='sunos localhost 5.10 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-2'
    config_args=''
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef usemultiplicity=undef
    useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef
    use64bitint=define use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef
    usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='cc', ccflags ='-D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -xarch=v8
-D_TS_ERRNO',
    optimize='-xO3 -xspace -xildoff',
    cppflags=''
    ccversion='Sun WorkShop', gccversion='', gccosandvers=''
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=87654321
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=16
    ivtype='long long', ivsize=8, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t',
lseeksize=8
    alignbytes=8, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='cc', ldflags =''
    libpth=/lib /usr/lib /usr/ccs/lib
    libs=-lsocket -lnsl -ldl -lm -lc
    perllibs=-lsocket -lnsl -ldl -lm -lc
    libc=/lib/libc.so, so=so, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.so
    gnulibc_version=''
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-R
/usr/perl5/5.8.4/lib/sun4-solaris-64int/CORE'
    cccdlflags='-KPIC', lddlflags='-G'


Characteristics of this binary (from libperl):
  Compile-time options: USE_64_BIT_INT USE_LARGE_FILES
  Locally applied patches:
        22667 The optree builder was looping when constructing the ops ...
        22715 Upgrade to FileCache 1.04
        22733 Missing copyright in the README.
        22746 fix a coredump caused by rv2gv not fully converting a PV ...
        22755 Fix 29149 - another UTF8 cache bug hit by substr.
        22774 [perl #28938] split could leave an array without ...
        22775 [perl #29127] scalar delete of empty slice returned garbage
        22776 [perl #28986] perl -e "open m" crashes Perl
        22777 add test for change #22776 ("open m" crashes Perl)
        22778 add test for change #22746 ([perl #29102] Crash on assign ...
        22781 [perl #29340] Bizarre copy of ARRAY make sure a pad op's ...
        22796 [perl #29346] Double warning for int(undef) and abs(undef) ...
        22818 BOM-marked and (BOMless) UTF-16 scripts not working
        22823 [perl #29581] glob() misses a lot of matches
        22827 Smoke [5.9.2] 22818 FAIL(F) MSWin32 WinXP/.Net SP1 (x86/1 cpu)
        22830 [perl #29637] Thread creation time is hypersensitive
        22831 improve hashing algorithm for ptr tables in perl_clone: ...
        22839 [perl #29790] Optimization busted: '@a = "b", sort @a' ...
        22850 [PATCH] 'perl -v' fails if local_patches contains code snippets
        22852 TEST needs to ignore SCM files
        22886 Pod::Find should ignore SCM files and dirs
        22888 Remove redundant %SIG assignments from FileCache
        23006 [perl #30509] use encoding and "eq" cause memory leak
        23074 Segfault using HTML::Entities
        23106 Numeric comparison operators mustn't compare addresses of ...
        23320 [perl #30066] Memory leak in nested shared data structures ...
        23321 [perl #31459] Bug in read()
        27722 perlio.c breaks on Solaris/gcc when > 256 FDs are available
        SPRINTF0 - fixes for sprintf formatting issues - CVE-2005-3962
        6663288 Upgrade to CGI.pm 3.33
        REGEXP0 - fix for UTF-8 recoding in regexps - CVE-2007-5116
        6758953 Perl Sys::Syslog can log messages with wrong severity
  Built under solaris
  Compiled at May 21 2009 03:59:02
  @INC:
    /usr/perl5/5.8.4/lib/sun4-solaris-64int
    /usr/perl5/5.8.4/lib
    /usr/perl5/site_perl/5.8.4/sun4-solaris-64int
    /usr/perl5/site_perl/5.8.4
    /usr/perl5/site_perl
    /usr/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.4/sun4-solaris-64int
    /usr/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.4
    /usr/perl5/vendor_perl
    .

-Scott