Re: A couple of patches from Debian

On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 09:02:01PM -0500, Jesse Luehrs wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 08:51:37PM -0500, Dave Rolsky wrote:
> >> * Work around a numification problem on ia64
> >>
> >> This basically fixes a test failure on the ia64 (Itanium) architecture.
> >> This has been already reported as RT#59478 [1] and perl #77456 [2], and
> >> seems to be already fixed in perl itself (commit a42d02426c, from v5.13.8).
> >
> > I think doy wanted to come up with a less hacky fix for this. I don't 
> > know where he is on this.
> 
> What I'd like to do is find a fix that would let plain == work anywhere,
> since there are other places (specifically MooseX::Types, but possibly
> other things too) that also need to know to do comparisons this way, and
> that's less than ideal. 

Are you already working on this (or you already know how to do this)? If
not may I suggest applying the patch for now and adding a warning note in 
the docs, until a proper fix is made?

> The issue is that we don't have any machines available that trigger this 
> error, so figuring out how exactly to do this is difficult. If anyone has 
> any machines available to do some testing on, this would be helpful.

Debian has a ia64 porter box, but I have no access to it since I'm not
a Debian Developer yet. If you have a patch or something to test, maybe I 
can ask someone from the Perl Group who has DD rights to try it out.

Cheers

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