Bug 547121

Summary:	Encode module in perl package references nonexisting file
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Christian Krause <chkr>
Component:	perl	Assignee:	Marcela Mašláňová <mmaslano>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	low
Version:	12	CC:	cweyl, kasal, lkundrak, mmaslano, rc040203, tcallawa
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Description Christian Krause 2009-12-13 17:29:30 UTC

[ copied from RHEL bug #435505 ]

Description of problem:
Perl's Encode module (/usr/lib/perl5/5.10.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/Encode.pm
) looks for a Encode::ConfigLocal module by calling:

eval { require Encode::ConfigLocal };

This Encode::ConfigLocal module does not exist, but since the require is wrapped
in an eval, it is not a fatal error, but depending on how the perl script is
written, this can generate warning messages, if for example the script is
catching eval errors and logging them.

The problem can be reproduced easily:

perl -e 'BEGIN { $SIG{__DIE__} = sub { print "Die: $_[0]\n"; }; }; use Encode;print "Hello world.\n";'

output:
-------------------------------
Die: Can't locate Encode/ConfigLocal.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib/perl5/5.10.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.10.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl .) at /usr/lib/perl5/5.10.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/Encode.pm line 53.

Hello world.
-------------------------------

F11 and F12 are both affected, the status in rawhide I don't know...

The problem got fixed in RHEL:
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2009-0117.html

Upstream tracking bug and suggested patch:
http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=11511#txn-481431

Comment 1 Marcela Mašláňová 2009-12-22 08:04:01 UTC

F-13 (perl-5.10.1) isn't affected.

Comment 2 Marcela Mašláňová 2010-01-11 14:31:25 UTC

This should be fixed in next update in F-12 since perl-5.10.0-88.fc12 or later.

Comment 3 Marcela Mašláňová 2010-03-16 09:20:38 UTC

Please re-open in case this is still bother you.

Comment 4 Christian Krause 2010-03-16 23:12:05 UTC

The servers I'm maintaining are running currently F11 and F12 and on these systems I always have to do some workarounds. So if it would be possible to get an update for F12 and F11, this would be great.

Comment 5 Marcela Mašláňová 2010-03-17 14:35:18 UTC

The mentioned patch is applied, but it gets somehow changed during the build. I'll fix it.

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Comment 7 Christian Krause 2010-06-20 14:23:56 UTC

The bug is still present in F12 (F13 is fixed). It would be great if the fix would land in F12, too.

Comment 8 Marcela Mašláňová 2010-07-22 11:56:23 UTC

In F-12 should be fixed in perl-5.10.0-89.

Comment 9 Christian Krause 2010-07-24 16:52:48 UTC

(In reply to comment #8)
> In F-12 should be fixed in perl-5.10.0-89.    

Yes, I can confirm this. Thanks!