Data-Uniqid-0.12 (perl module)

[ken@…]

Required at runtime by current biber.

This module requires Math::Bigint, but for me Data-Uniqid-0.12 fails one of its tests (the fourth/last) : adding a print showed that the four returned values were 127,0,0,1 : 0 causes the test to fail.

On my tests for biber, this module does the job. I cannot see any recent reports of test failures, in particular gentoo have had this module for some time and seem to run the tests on it.

The failing test appears to use Sys::Hostname (a core module), perhaps my hostname on this box breaks it.

[ken@…]

Replying to ken@…:

Required at runtime by current biber.

On my tests for biber, this module does the job. I cannot see any recent reports of test failures, in particular gentoo have had this module for some time and seem to run the tests on it.

I was premature in saying that : it turns out that all my tests ran through, biber was not working (failed to find the other new module).

[ken@…]

Giving back to the book, I suspect that this module might be not working in my build, and causing biblatex-biber-2.4 to not work.

Note: it is only needed for biblatex-biber => 2.4.

[ken@…]

I've temporarily gone back to a 7.8 system to try this - but 'make test' fails in the same way. So, not new with BLFS-7.9, but no idea why it fails for me.

[ken@…]

I asked on texlive : debian patch out the failing test in this module (it is mainly used as a dependency for something else), so we can do the same.

[ken@…]

I got biber to work, so I'll take this back.

[ken@…]

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