Description of problem: Package polymake fails to build from source with Perl 5.38 in Fedora Rawhide. ************* *** ERROR *** ************* polymake does not work with perl 5.37 or newer; your perl interpreter says it is 5.038000. Access to various functions that are required to hook into the perl interpreter has been restricted to the perl core, which unfortunately breaks polymake. If you already have another (older) perl interpreter somewhere else, you can specify its location on the command line: ./configure PERL=/path/to/my/new/perl [other options ...] You can install a custom perl version in your home directory using perlbrew (https://perlbrew.pl). Make sure to append '-Duseshrplib' to the install command if you want to use libpolymake (e.g. for the jupyter interface) and to install all required perl modules which are listed after running configure again with the new perl. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 4.10-2.fc39 https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=103257961 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: koji build --scratch f39 polymake-4.10-1.fc39.src.rpm
Oooooooooooh noooooooooo! I don't know what to do about this, other than retire polymake, which will do serious damage to our mathematical tools stack. It will impact Macaulay2, sagemath, gap-pkg-polymaking, and everything that sits on top of gap-pkg-polymaking. If anybody has a bright idea, I'm all ears.
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora Linux 39 development cycle. Changing version to 39.