On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 11:03:50AM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hi Efraim, > > Efraim Flashner <efr...@flashner.co.il> skribis: > > > There's a lot of perl related build failures. Maybe it would be better > > to revert the perl update and work on updating perl and all the perl > > modules separately. It seems to me that there are a large number of perl > > packages that haven't been updated in quite some time. > > Reverting is not an option at this point IMO. There are several Date::* > modules required by Biber that FTBFS and need an update, indeed, but I > think we should rather find a way to fix them (I spent a bit of time on > it but then moved on to something else.) > > Thoughts?
The "stereotypical" Perl 5.26.0-related failures are the "dotless @INC" and regex brace-escaping issues. Both of these can be fixed downstream (in Guix) fairly easily, if necessary.
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