Bug 2393452

Summary:	perl-ExtUtils-ParseXS-3.59 is available
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Upstream Release Monitoring <upstream-release-monitoring>
Component:	perl-ExtUtils-ParseXS	Assignee:	Jitka Plesnikova <jplesnik>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	rawhide	CC:	jplesnik, mspacek, paul, perl-devel, ppisar, spotrh, steve
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Description Upstream Release Monitoring 2025-09-05 14:10:04 UTC

Releases retrieved: 3.59
Upstream release that is considered latest: 3.59
Current version/release in rawhide: 3.58-2.fc43
URL: http://search.cpan.org/dist/ExtUtils-ParseXS/

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Comment 1 Fedora Update System 2025-09-05 16:05:55 UTC

FEDORA-2025-868579b32d (perl-ExtUtils-ParseXS-3.59-1.fc44) has been submitted as an update to Fedora 44.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-868579b32d

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2025-09-05 16:11:01 UTC

FEDORA-2025-868579b32d (perl-ExtUtils-ParseXS-3.59-1.fc44) has been pushed to the Fedora 44 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 3 Petr Pisar 2025-09-08 08:42:51 UTC

This breaks perl-HarfBuzz-Shaper and perl-Pango:

"/usr/bin/perl" "/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/ExtUtils/xsubpp"  -typemap '/usr/share/perl5/ExtUtils/typemap' -typemap '/builddir/build/BUILD/perl-HarfBuzz-Shaper-0.028-build/HarfBuzz-Shaper-0.028/typemap'  Shaper.xs > Shaper.xsc
length(NAME) not supported with typemaps other than T_PV in Shaper.xs, line 41
length(NAME) not supported with typemaps other than T_PV in Shaper.xs, line 67
length(NAME) not supported with typemaps other than T_PV in Shaper.xs, line 94
length(NAME) not supported with typemaps other than T_PV in Shaper.xs, line 123
length(NAME) not supported with typemaps other than T_PV in Shaper.xs, line 262

Shaper.xs:41 is:

void
hb_buffer_add_utf8(hb_buffer_t *buf, bytestring_t s, size_t length(s), unsigned int offset=0, size_t len=-1)

perlxs POD documents:

  The length(NAME) Keyword
    If one of the input arguments to the C function is the length of a
    string argument "NAME", one can substitute the name of the
    length-argument by length(NAME) in the XSUB declaration. This argument
    must be omitted when the generated Perl function is called. E.g.,

      void
      dump_chars(char *s, short l)
      {
        short n = 0;
        while (n < l) {
            printf("s[%d] = \"\\%#03o\"\n", n, (int)s[n]);
            n++;
        }
      }

      MODULE = x            PACKAGE = x

      void dump_chars(char *s, short length(s))

    should be called as dump_chars($string).

    This directive is supported with ANSI-type function declarations only.

While changelog claims:

3.59 Fri Sep  5 03:36:03 PM CEST 2025
  - Throw an exception when combining the length operator with a
    typemap other than T_PV

I don't get it. T_PV is a string type in Perl. char * is a string in C. What's the problem?

Comment 4 Petr Pisar 2025-09-15 10:29:17 UTC

This change will be probably reverted in 3.60 <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/23707>.