Changeset e394bda

Timestamp:

08/08/2019 08:32:11 PM (4 years ago)

Author:

Ken Moffat <ken@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.0, 9.0, 9.1, kea, ken/inkscape-core-mods, lazarus, lxqt, plabs/python-mods, qt5new, trunk, upgradedb, xry111/intltool, xry111/soup3, xry111/test-20220226, xry111/xf86-video-removal

Children:

d3930a7

Parents:

134224d2

Message:

Fix biber tests for perl-5.30.0.

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@21916 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

Files:

• introduction/welcome/changelog.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• pst/typesetting/biber.xml (modified) (6 diffs)

introduction/welcome/changelog.xml

@@ -45 +45 @@
       <para>August 8th, 2019</para>
       <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[ken] - Patch biber-2.12 for failing tests from perl-5.30. Fixes
+          <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;12368">#12368</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
         <listitem revision="systemd">
           <para>[renodr] - Fix systemd to allow networkd to function on systems

pst/typesetting/biber.xml

@@ -64 +64 @@
       </listitem>
     </itemizedlist>
+
 
     <note>
@@ -88 +89 @@
     </note>
 
-    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Required Additional Download</bridgehead>
+    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Required Additional Downloads</bridgehead>
 
     <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
@@ -102 +103 @@
       <listitem>
         <para>Download size: &biblatex-size;</para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Patch to make the tests work correctly with perl-5.30.0.
+          <ulink url="&patch-root;/biber-&biber-version;-upstream_fixes-1.patch"/>
+        </para>
       </listitem>
     </itemizedlist>
@@ -166 +173 @@
       <application>perl-5.26.0</application>. If you are using an older version
       of <command>perl</command> you may prefer to install v2.7 - for that see
-      the BLFS-8.1 book.</para>
+      the BLFS-8.1 book. If you are using perl 5.26 or 5.28, please omit the
+      patch (or follow the BLFS-8.4 book for this package).</para>
     </note>
 
@@ -199 +207 @@
     commands:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput>perl ./Build.PL &amp;&amp;
+<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../biber-&biber-version;-upstream_fixes-1.patch &amp;&amp;
+perl ./Build.PL &amp;&amp;
 ./Build</userinput></screen>
 
@@ -214 +223 @@
   <sect2 role="commands">
     <title>Command Explanations</title>
+
+    <para>
+      <command>patch -Np1 -i ../biber-&biber-version;-upstream_fixes-1.patch</command>:
+      Perl version 5.30.0 shipped a new version of core module Unicode::Collate which
+      changed sortinit hashes. That broke many tests, the patch fixes them.
+    </para>
 
     <para>