Re: A couple of patches from Debian

I am resurrecting this thread to see if there has been any movement on
this. Currently, I am developing on ancient 5.8.5 && 5.8.9 that
explicitly have this problem. The easiest somewhat self contained test
where this manifests is in MooseX::Types::Structured's  t/06-api.t
(since it exercises equals()).

And it isn't limited to ia64 as my environment is x86_64 so it seems
to be an issue with 64bit in general. Indeed, forcing numification
seems to correct the issue.



On Fri, 9 Sep 2011 15:32:19 +0200
Alessandro Ghedini <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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
>