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Id: 7244
Status: resolved
Worked: 15 min
Priority: 0/
Queue: Math-BigInt
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Owner: TELS [...] cpan.org
Requestors: RSOD [...] cpan.org
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Bug Information
Severity: Critical
Broken in: 1.71
Fixed in: 1.73

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  Tue Aug 03 18:55:41 2004 Guest - Ticket created
Subject: 1.71 fails to list required dependency "Scalar::Util"
After installing perl 5.6 from ports on FreeBSD 4.7 (yep, it's out of date a bit), we discovered that Math::BigInt can't install because it expects an unlisted dependency, "Scalar::Util", to be present.
  Wed Sep 08 16:49:21 2004 Guest - Correspondence added
From: perl_dummy [...] bloodgate.com
[guest - Tue Aug 3 18:55:41 2004]: Show quoted text
> After installing perl 5.6 from ports on FreeBSD 4.7 (yep, it's out of > date a bit), we discovered that Math::BigInt can't install because > it expects an unlisted dependency, "Scalar::Util", to be present.
Scalar::Util was added to capture some obscure bugs (like writing $x -=$x). I guess the testsuite exercised these to make sure they work, and thus needs Scalar::Utils as a side-effect. Since I didn't realize that Scalar::Util is not part of older perls, I forgot the PREREQ. Mea culpa. I added one for the upcoming v1.73. Thank you for your report, Tels
  Wed Sep 08 16:57:16 2004 TELS [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'
  Wed Sep 08 16:57:20 2004 TELS [...] cpan.org - Taken
  Fri Nov 26 07:56:01 2004 TELS [...] cpan.org - TimeWorked changed from (no value) to '15 min'
  Fri Nov 26 07:56:04 2004 TELS [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'
  Fri Nov 26 07:56:05 2004 TELS [...] cpan.org - Fixed in 1.73 added