[Regression] Perl 5.8.8-12ubuntu0.3 missing /asm*/*.ph files

[Alan Tam]

Binary package hint: perl

The security update of Perl on hardy totally breaks Filesys::DiskSpace.

# dpkg -l perl | tail -n1
ii perl 5.8.8-12ubuntu0.3 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction and Report Language

# perl -e "use Filesys::DiskSpace; warn df('/');"
sys/syscall.ph is missing, see the h2ph man page at -e line 1

# apt-get install perl=5.8.8-12 perl-base=5.8.8-12 libperl5.8=5.8.8-12
[...]

# perl -e "use Filesys::DiskSpace; warn df('/');"
1382369651REISERFS_SUPER_MAGIC894168330000410 at -e line 1.

[Alan Tam (at)]

Subscribed ubuntu-security since it is a regression of a security update.

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Further digging down the cause, this is a more isolated test case:

# perl -e "require 'sys/syscall.ph';"
Can't locate unistd_32.ph in @INC (did you run h2ph?) (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.8 /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.8 /usr/share/perl/5.8 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at /usr/lib/perl/5.8/asm/unistd.ph line 6.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/lib/perl/5.8/sys/syscall.ph line 7.
Compilation failed in require at -e line 1.

# apt-get install perl=5.8.8-12 perl-base=5.8.8-12 libperl5.8=5.8.8-12
[...]

# perl -e "require 'sys/syscall.ph';"
#

[Kees Cook (kees)]

Dapper, Gutsy, Intrepid, Jaunty are all unaffected. Digging into what broke in Hardy now...

[Kees Cook (kees)]

Looks like changes during the Hardy development cycle to the system headers broke h2ph. Fix found in Debian builds, currently building tests to validate. Once that's finished the fix will be published. Thanks for the report!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package perl - 5.8.8-12ubuntu0.4

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perl (5.8.8-12ubuntu0.4) hardy-security; urgency=low

  * 10_fix_h2ph_include_quote: handle system headers with quotes,
    thanks to Niko Tyni (LP: #315991).
  * debian/rules: verify required .ph files during build.

 -- Kees Cook <email address hidden> Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:20:54 -0800