This report doesn't give me enough information. I see your last build in koji failed but not because of perl. The perl-XML-Parser wasn't changed for quite long time and also I'm not aware of change of perl api. I suppose the problem is on your side. Did you try rebuild in dist-f12-openssl?

Of couse it fails due to perl:

Lines like these:

perl: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/auto/XML/Parser/Expat/Expat.so: undefined symbol: Perl_pad_sv
perl ./xmltoman esdcompat.1.xml > esdcompat.1 || rm -f esdcompat.1

Then cause esdcompat.1 to not exist, which then causes lines like this:

/usr/bin/install: cannot stat `./pulseaudio.1': No such file or directory

Which then causes the build to fail.

Checking on my x86 box the .so is from the perl-XML-Parser package. Reassigning and reopening.

BTW, this is an excerpt from:

http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/getfile?taskID=1629027&name=build.log

(scroll to the end)

ABI indeed changed due to switch to debugging perl in 5.10.0-78. I think I saw a commit that reverted that this morning -- Lennart, could you please try to reproduce it with more recent perl package?

(In reply to comment #4)
> ABI indeed changed due to switch to debugging perl in 5.10.0-78. I think I saw
> a commit that reverted that this morning -- Lennart, could you please try to
> reproduce it with more recent perl package?  

How would I do that?

All I can offer is asking for another build in kji, whcih I now did:

http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=1629127

From: makedef.pl

unless ($define{'DEBUGGING'}) {
    skip_symbols [qw(
                    Perl_deb_growlevel
                    Perl_debop
                    Perl_debprofdump
                    Perl_debstack
                    Perl_debstackptrs
                    Perl_pad_sv
                    Perl_sv_peek
                    Perl_hv_assert
                    PL_block_type
                    PL_watchaddr
                    PL_watchok
                    PL_watch_pvx
                    )];
}

perl-5.10.0-79.fc12 doesn't have Perl_pad_sv as a symbol as a result of the DEBUGGING change. perl-XML-Parser just needs a rebuild, I tested it locally to confirm the fix and then kicked off a chainbuild of perl-XML-Parser and pulseaudio to get it in rawhide.

http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=1629150

Indeed, the Perl_pad_sv symbol is available in debugging version of perl only.
Unfortunately, the version perl-5.10.0-79 was build without debbugging support.
That build was untagged and the current koji repo contains the older -77 build.

Build perl-5.10.0-80 fixes the problem.

(In reply to comment #5)
> All I can offer is asking for another build in koji, whcih I now did:
> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=1629127

This should work, the buggy build of perl is no longer in the repo.

Yes, I can confirm that it builds fine now. Thanks.