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*(Moved from https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/22527#issuecomment-2302024016.)* I read the following in the documentation (5.40.0): ``` perldoc perl5380delta * The underlying "Perl_dowantarray" function implementing the long-deprecated "GIMME" macro has been marked as deprecated, so...
Commit 2f48e46b3f6d2d introduced a warning for logical negation as the left operand of the `isa` operator, which likely indicates a precedence problem (i.e. the programmer wrote `! $x isa $y`...
In this ticket we'll log reports of CPAN distributions failing to build or test due to the recent `switch` removal. Note that as the removal took place over a number...
**Description** with v5.41.0-13-g06e421c559 a test started to fail for PLICEASE/UUID-FFI-0.11.tar.gz Sample fail report: http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/10ab0748-3a79-11ef-9583-ab3925c06771 Bisect says: ``` 06e421c559c63975f29c35ba3588a0e6b0c75eca is the first bad commit commit 06e421c559c63975f29c35ba3588a0e6b0c75eca Author: Richard Leach Date: Fri...
**Description** When building Perl on Rocky Linux 9, the "afs" configuration is always set to true, due to the root-level '/afs' directory always being present. Ref: https://www.reddit.com/r/Fedora/comments/z090bw/whats_the_afs_dir_on_my_f37_system_its_empty/ **Steps to Reproduce**...
The rather obscure and little tested CPAN distribution Class-MethodCache at some point began to experience build-time failures on CPANtesters. [First failure report](http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/1d543d5e-1ef2-11ef-a392-f0bef274a39a). Excerpt of failure output: ``` cp lib/Class/MethodCache.pm blib/lib/Class/MethodCache.pm...
We are experiencing considerable "Blead Breaks CPAN (BBC)" breakage on blead. This has already been reported on the Perl 5 Porters mailing list (thread starting [here](https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2024/08/msg268685.html), and as already reported...
**Description** All Perls which I have built thus far will correctly build as NeXT-style fat (multi-architecture) binaries when the directions in `README.macosx` are followed – except the newest ones, beginning...
**Description** It was easy enough, with minor tweaks to CFLAGS, to build Perl in 64-bit mode on my Power Mac G5 – but something is not quite right in the...
**Description** Classes cannot be redeclared. Declaring one more than once causes a compile time failure: ``` perl -E 'use experimental "class"; class Test; say "Got to here"; class Test' Cannot...
