Bug 413861

Summary:	Perl update broke Scalar:Util
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Boris Goldowsky <boris>
Component:	perl	Assignee:	Marcela Mašláňová <mmaslano>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	8	CC:	kasal, rc040203, tcallawa, zing
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Description Boris Goldowsky 2007-12-06 13:10:33 UTC

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
perl-5.8.8-32.fc8.x86_64

How reproducible:
always

Since the update to version mentioned above, some Fedora-packaged perl programs
that depend on the Scalar:Util will throw errors or warnings.  For instance GET:

$ GET -d http://fedora.us/
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at
/usr/lib64/perl5/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/Scalar/Util.pm line 30.

Also BackupPC is encountering a similar error.

It can be localized to the Scalar:Util import wanting a particular feature:

$ perl -e 'use Scalar::Util qw(dualvar);'
 is only avaliable with the XS version at -e line 1

And I found an email thread related to this:

http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2007/07/msg538118.html

Comment 1 Boris Goldowsky 2008-02-22 17:38:10 UTC

I applied a workaround, and then this happened again with the recent update to
perl-5.8.8-33.fc8.x86_64.

Increasing to high severity since it breaks multiple standard Fedora-installed
programs that depend on perl.

Comment 2 GeoffLeach 2008-02-23 22:14:11 UTC

Not supprisingly perhaps, its also broken in perl-5.8.8-33.fc8. FWIW, a
workaround is to force install of List::Util in cpan.

Comment 3 Marcela Mašláňová 2008-03-06 14:03:04 UTC

The package perl-5.8.8-36 upgrade the Scalar::Util on the latest version. The
problem with XS support, weaken and other functions provided by Scalar::Util
should be fixed by this update. 
If you problem persist, please feel free to reopen the bug.