Re: [platform-testers] texinfo-6.5.90 pretest on CentOS 7.3

[Gavin Smith]

On 1/4/19, Bruno Haible <address@hidden> wrote:
> On CentOS 7.3.1611:
> - Build fails: "Can't locate Data/Dumper.pm"
> - All tests fail
>
> Logs attached.

Thanks for testing it. I expect what is needed here is a check for the
perl version. From tp/README:

> These other modules and libraries are required (all have been standard
> parts of Perl for years, at least since 5.7.3):
>  Carp, Config, Data::Dumper, Encode, File::Basename, File::Spec
>  Getopt::Long, Unicode::Normalize, Storable

However, on CentOS it appears to be in a different package.

https://centos.pkgs.org/7/centos-x86_64/perl-Data-Dumper-2.145-3.el7.x86_64.rpm.html

So it looks like we would need to check for that particular module
being available.

I found a couple of articles on the web that could give some explanation:

http://modernperlbooks.com/mt/2012/01/avoiding-the-vendor-perl-fad-diet.html
https://lwn.net/Articles/348084/