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From: bandregg Subject: 5.2 PERL This is the second report I've heard of this. -- Bryan C. Andregg * <bandregg> * Red Hat Software "Hey, wait a minute, you clowns are on dope!" -- Owen Cheese in 'Shakes the Clown' ------- Forwarded Message Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 13:13:56 -0500 Subject: 5.2, Perl, and Majordomo Last Friday I upgraded from 5.1 to 5.2, and found out that night that Majordomo had been broken thereby. The culprit turned out to be the Perl 5.004m4 installation that the 5.2 upgrade apparently did. (I don't know what I'd had on there before -- whatever came with 5.1.) Installing the contrib Perl 5.005_1 RPM fixed the problem.
I also noticed issues with the 5.2 build of perl (perl-5.004m4-1.i386.rpm) and bugzilla. Downgrading to the latest 5.1 build (perl-5.004-7.i386.rpm) worked as in interim solution. The following errors were reported: Substitution loop at globals.pl line 547. 542 # Trim whitespace from front and back. 543 544 sub trim { 545 ($_) = (@_); 546 s/^\s*//g; 547 s/\s*$//g; 548 return $_; 549 } Substitution loop at /usr/lib/perl5/CGI/Carp.pm line 245. 238 sub die { 239 my $message = shift; 240 my $time = scalar(localtime); 241 my($file,$line,$id) = id(1); 242 $message .= " at $file line $line.\n" unless $message=~/\n$/; 243 &fatalsToBrowser($message) if $WRAP && _longmess() !~ /eval [{\']/m; 244 my $stamp = stamp; 245 $message=~s/^/$stamp/gm; 246 realdie $message; 247 }
I've also had the same problem - "downgrading" to perl-5.004-6 works fine... What's the difference between perl-5.004-* AND perl-5.004m4-*? Anyway, it seems to choke on the following code: #(/opt/local/majordomo/majordomo, lines 132-135) if (! &valid_addr($reply_to)) { &abort( "$whoami: $reply_to is not a valid return address.\n"); exit 2; } # # $reply_to and valid_addr are defined in majordomo.pl, line 501...: # If you would like to see the code, or would like a login on my # RedHat box to test it all out, just give a holler... thanks # for the prompt attention!
There are also problems with the Text::ParseWords module in the perl-5 RPM shipped with 5.2. Using it when called with 'perl -w' causes massive numbers of 'using uninitialized variable' warnings. Downgrading to perl-5.004-6 corrected the problem. I'd strongly reccomend upgrading this package to the release version of perl 5.005.
*** Bug 90 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Some scripts that work with perl 5.004_04 (the version included with RHL 5.1) don't work with the version included with RHL 5.2. It appears that the version with 5.2 is buggy in some respects. I've had it running for a few hours, and already found a couple of problems. One I tracked down to the regexp replace $dtstr =~ s#(\A|\n|\Z)# #sog; giving a "Substitution loop" error (and the script dies). This is a valid regexp, so I suspect the maintenance release of perl from RHL 5.2 is buggy. How about sticking to "released" versions of software for RHL releases? I use RHL on several Internet/web/database servers and I depend on it being stable. ------- Additional Comments From jturner 12/10/98 14:04 ------- The version of Perl that ships with 5.2 is 5.004_04 (check /usr/bin to verify) and using a fresh install of 5.2 I was able to execute the script command that you included without problems in the test lab. Verify the version of Perl that you are running. ------- Additional Comments From cadams 12/10/98 20:05 ------- Please see my email - this is a bug in the trial release of perl used in building the RHL 5.2 perl RPM. The version of perl you included with RHL 5.2 is a trial maintenance release, not meant for regular widespread distribution. Looking through Bugzilla, I see lots of complaints about this version of perl. You should issue an errata on this, either reccomending people downgrade to a stable version of perl or upgrade to a newer perl (and put a newer version of perl in the updates directory). ------- Additional Comments From dkl 12/11/98 11:45 ------- This bug has been assigned to a developer for further review.
OS: Linux (RedHat 5.2) 2.0.36 #1 Tue Oct 13 22:17:11 EDT 1998 i686 Perl: version 5.005_02 built for i686-linux Problem: Any perl program that tries to use the syslog module by doing use Sys::Syslog; fails with the following messages: Can't locate stdarg.ph in @INC (did you run h2ph?) (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/i386-linux/5.00401 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl .) at /usr/lib/perl5/i386-linux/5.00401/sys/syslog.ph line 74. Note: After the installation of Perl 5.005_02, in /usr/include I ran h2ph *.h sys/*.h Solution: Based on a suggestion found at http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/rhl/rh51-errata-general.html: The fix is to run h2ph by hand: cd `/usr/bin/gcc --print-file-name include` /usr/bin/h2ph *.h Follow up problem: Next, I try my simple test program: #!/usr/bin/perl -w use Sys::Syslog; openlog ('testprogram', 'pid', 'user'); syslog ('info', 'yaut'); closelog(); When I run this program, the output is: Constant subroutine __need___va_list undefined at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i686-linux/stdarg.ph line 7. If I comment this line (i.e. put an # in front of it), the error does not occur anymore. However, there is no output in the syslog either.
*** Bug 90 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** perl reports an error when trying to remove leading blanks new install of redhat 5.2 on i386 latest majordomo majordomo script at line 177 s/^\s*//g; ------- Additional Comments From ayn2 12/26/98 19:04 ------- This is a duplicate of #90 and #383
*** Bug 90 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** I'm getting odd errors on 5.2 from a script that's supposed to be an example of using the chat2.pl package. The URL listed above is where the script is available. I get different results on my RHL 4.2 box, though it still does not run. I can't be sure at this stage whether this is a RedHat bug, a Perl bug, a bug in the module, or what. I'm trying to get a WORKING example of chat2.pl from somewhere (anywhere!) so I can indeed be sure. fennel.senie.com% chat2.examp bolton Prototype mismatch: sub chat::__need_size_t vs () at (eval 43) line 1. String found where operator expected at (eval 147) line 1, near "&__const 'struct sockaddr'" (Missing operator before 'struct sockaddr'?) open: Bad file descriptor at chat2.examp line 38. ------- Additional Comments From dts 12/28/98 12:15 ------- Apparently the URL field in the bug tracking form doesn't get recorded properly. I'll email the script in question to dkl shortly. ------- Additional Comments From dts 12/28/98 12:35 ------- Further update. I now have a VERY simple script that works fine on my 4.2 RHL, and blows up on 5.2. The script is included below. Also included are the PERL versions from the two boxes (which are slightly different apparently). Script: #!/usr/bin/perl require "chat2.pl"; $where = 'gate.senie.com'; $whereport = 23; $handle = &chat'open_port($where, $whereport); print "result of open_port is $handle\n"; On the 4.2 system: perl -v gives: This is perl, version 5.004_04 built for i386-linux On the 5.2 system the script fails with: Prototype mismatch: sub chat::__need_size_t vs () at (eval 43) line 1. String found where operator expected at (eval 147) line 1, near "&__const 'struct sockaddr'" (Missing operator before 'struct sockaddr'?) result of open_port is chatsymbol000001 and the perl -v there shows: This is perl, version 5.004_04 built for i386-linux (with 1 registered patch, see perl -V for more detail)
*** Bug 90 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Requiring "sys/socket.ph" results in an error. This breaks some Perl scripts. sonata$ perl -e 'require "sys/socket.ph";' Prototype mismatch: sub main::__need_size_t vs () at (eval 43) line 1. String found where operator expected at (eval 147) line 1, near "&__const 'struct sockaddr'" (Missing operator before 'struct sockaddr'?) sonata$ This is on a RedHat 5.2 system upgraded from RedHat 5.1. I verified the Perl installation with rpm --verify.
*** Bug 90 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Perl 5.004m4, which ships on the RHL 5.2 discs, is bad. It breaks majordomo horribly, generates spurious messages in various other places, and in general has broken a LOT of stuff, and cost many hours of futile debugging. The fix is to: rpm --force -Uvh perl-5.004-4.i386.rpm and then things returned to normal.
*** Bug 835 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** When I attempt to load Tk_402_004 with Red Hat 5.2 on an Intel 586 machine, it fails at the make test stage. It worked fine on Red Hat 5.1. Also, when I reinstall perl 5.004_04 from scratch on a Red Hat 5.2 system, then Tk starts working, even though that is the Perl version nominally installed on Red Hat 5.2.
Perl in 5.2 is broken in several horrible ways. The perl in RawHide has fixed the majordomo problems, and hopefully most other perl related issues. ------- Email Received From Andrew Anderson <andrew> 03/18/99 14:34 -------
I ran into the problem with socket.ph today. It turns out that h2ph cannot properly handle glibc's embedding of #defines inside enums. So you end up with things like eval 'sub SOCK_STREAM () { &SOCK_STREAM;}' unless defined(&SOCK_STREAM); instead of eval 'sub SOCK_STREAM () { 1;}' unless defined(&SOCK_STREAM); in /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/i386-linux/bits/socket.ph Does this new rawhide rpm fix this particular problem? It seems to be a perl specific problem but is there any plan for an official RH6.0 fix? The broken bits/socket.ph caused aub to go into an infinte loop when calling socket() and locked up my machine.