Version: 5.30.3-2 On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 10:41:10AM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote: > Package: perl > Version: 5.20.0-6 > Severity: minor > > With static builds (-Uuseshrplib, where /usr/bin/perl is statically linked > against libperl), perl -V lies about the configuration because we install > Config.pm from the shared build (-Duseshrplib). This has been the case > for a long time on i386, and since 5.20.2-5 we use a statically built > /usr/bin/perl on all architectures. > > The situation is somewhat better with the 5.22 packaging, where we install > two Config.pm files: once in perl-base under /usr/lib/<triplet>/perl-base > and once in libperl5.22 under /usr/lib/<triplet>perl/5.22. The former > Config.pm has the configuration from the static build and the latter > from the shared build. > > However, the current @INC in the 5.22 packages has the perl-base > directory at the very end, so on non-minimal systems with libperl5.22 > installed, perl -V still lies because the libperl5.22 Config.pm takes > precedence. If libperl5.22 is not present, 'perl -V' will show the > correct configuration. > > The right order of @INC would probably be to put > /usr/lib/<triplet>/perl-base right before /usr/lib/<triplet>perl/5.22. > There's no configuration knob for this so it needs patching perl.c. > > I'm not aware of other bad effects with the current ordering so > this is not a priority.
Other bad effects did turn up eventually with #962138 . @INC is changed now and this bug is resolved with 5.30.3-2. Closing. -- Niko Tyni [email protected]
