| Subject: | Long double issue with perl 5.12 on amd64 architecture |
This is being forwarded from Debian. The Debian bug report is
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=578904
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 04:08:52PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
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> Package: librose-db-object-perl
> Version: 0.786-1
> Severity: important
> User: debian-perl@lists.debian.org
> Usertags: perl-5.12-transition, perl-long-double
>
> This package fails to build on amd64 with perl 5.12.0-1 from experimental:
Show quoted text> # $got->{prices}[0]{price} = '9.99000000000000021'
> # $expected->{prices}[0]{price} = '9.99'
Show quoted text> As the package built fine in my earlier tests with 5.12.0~rc3-1, the
failure
Show quoted text> is almost certainly due to 5.12.0-1 being configured with -Duselongdouble.
I ended up reverting the -Duselongdouble setting for perl 5.12.0-2.
I've verified on amd64 that this package builds fine now.
Although this bug does not affect Debian anymore, I'm not closing it as
it's still relevant for upstream. Feel free to close it after forwarding.
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Niko Tyni ntyni@debian.org