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=== Friday 5th June 2009 ===

==== Local Packages ====

Finally got round to making `perl-PPI` 1.203 build successfully across all of my supported releases.
On Red Hat Linux 9 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 it was failing multiple tests with
"Can't use an undefined value as an ARRAY reference" errors
[[http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2008/05/msg1475603.html|like in this test case]].
This appears to be a bug in perl 5.8.0, or at least the Red Hat version of it, and I was able to fix it with
this patch:
{{{
--- PPI-1.203/lib/PPI/Lexer.pm	2008-05-14 05:14:00.000000000 +0100
+++ PPI-1.203/lib/PPI/Lexer.pm	2009-06-05 15:39:19.000000000 +0100
@@ -278,7 +278,7 @@
 	# Checking once at the end is faster than adding a special
 	# case check for every statement parsed.
 	my $v6 = $self->{Tokenizer}->{v6};
-	if ( @$v6 ) {
+	if ( defined($v6) && @$v6 ) {
 		my $includes = $Document->find( 'PPI::Statement::Include::Perl6' );
 		foreach my $include ( @$includes ) {
 			unless ( @$v6 ) {
}}}
On Fedora Core 3 and 4, the `14_charsets.t` test just got stuck in an infinite loop
gobbling up memory as per [[http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=35917|CPAN RT#35917]],
which was easily fixed by updating the test to the one in the
[[http://search.cpan.org/~adamk/PPI-1.204_02/|1.204_02 developer release]],
which simply skips the test on perls older than 5.8.7.

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