Re: Perl 5.42.1 is now available!

On Sun, 8 Mar 2026 18:57:00 +0000, Steve Hay wrote:

> We are pleased to announce version 42.1, the first maintenance release
> of version 42 of Perl 5.

On my Fedora 42 (Intel x64) building fails on miniperl. It looks like 
`-lm` is missing.

cc -fstack-protector-strong -L/usr/local/lib -o miniperl \
    opmini.o perlmini.o universalmini.o av.o builtin.o caretx.o class.o
deb.o doio.o doop.o dquote.o dump.o globals.o gv.o hv.o keywords.o locale.o
mathoms.o mg.o mro_core.o numeric.o pad.o peep.o perlio.o perly.o pp.o
pp_ctl.o pp_hot.o pp_pack.o pp_sort.o pp_sys.o reentr.o regcomp.o
regcomp_debug.o regcomp_invlist.o regcomp_study.o regcomp_trie.o regexec.o
run.o scope.o sv.o taint.o time64.o toke.o utf8.o util.o   miniperlmain.o
-lpthread -ldl -lutil /bin/ld: pp.o: in function `Perl_pp_pow':
pp.c:(.text+0x368c): undefined reference to `pow' /bin/ld: pp.o: in
function `Perl_pp_modulo': pp.c:(.text+0x4ab6): undefined reference to
`fmod' /bin/ld: pp.o: in function `Perl_pp_atan2': pp.c:(.text+0x8d51):
undefined reference to `atan2' /bin/ld: pp.o: in function `Perl_pp_sin':
pp.c:(.text+0x8f83): undefined reference to `sqrt' /bin/ld:
pp.c:(.text+0x8f91): undefined reference to `exp' /bin/ld:
pp.c:(.text+0x8fa1): undefined reference to `sin' /bin/ld:
pp.c:(.text+0x8fb7): undefined reference to `cos' /bin/ld:
pp.c:(.text+0x8fc7): undefined reference to `log' /bin/ld: time64.o: in
function `Perl_gmtime64_r': time64.c:(.text+0x823): undefined reference to
`fmod' /bin/ld: time64.c:(.text+0x875): undefined reference to `fmod'
/bin/ld: time64.c:(.text+0x8cc): undefined reference to `fmod' /bin/ld:
time64.c:(.text+0x937): undefined reference to `fmod' collect2: error: ld
returned 1 exit status