From nobody Thu Jun 09 17:51:22 2022 X-Original-To: perl@mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33154853E69 for ; Thu, 9 Jun 2022 17:51:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jkeenan@pobox.com) Received: from pb-smtp21.pobox.com (pb-smtp21.pobox.com [173.228.157.53]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4LJs961B9gz4lMw for ; Thu, 9 Jun 2022 17:51:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jkeenan@pobox.com) Received: from pb-smtp21.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp21.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D9001A92EF for ; Thu, 9 Jun 2022 13:51:30 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jkeenan@pobox.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=message-id :date:mime-version:to:from:subject:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; s=sasl; bh=SFZ1Y0zF5V+h4aUbNSJVWCFtf x7ayv2kB5Z35Qer6K0=; b=TggrLritCtEOhmsSjHZnHywuwV2/4bxlfCcAPRDEW 65u0WJHtEfICV1eEOU8wPkRSi03iD0PmB7KxPVajycMGAbQuglXHyqztxq9C4e4M pxk+18abLYlnKXWVyNyZuqFYG5jqXc+8f+iW/q7y3PXaBQhKPSbKDvgrLnldpnvI Ho= Received: from pb-smtp21.sea.icgroup.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp21.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 762761A92EE for ; Thu, 9 Jun 2022 13:51:30 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jkeenan@pobox.com) Received: from [192.168.1.4] (unknown [24.185.115.142]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pb-smtp21.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 746301A92ED for ; Thu, 9 Jun 2022 13:51:25 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jkeenan@pobox.com) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2022 13:51:22 -0400 List-Id: maintainer of a number of perl-related ports List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-perl List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Sender: owner-freebsd-perl@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-perl@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.9.1 To: perl@freebsd.org Content-Language: en-US From: James E Keenan Subject: Does 'perl -v' show correct output on non-amd64 FreeBSD? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Pobox-Relay-ID: C81E3C08-E81C-11EC-9B7C-CBA7845BAAA9-57062903!pb-smtp21.pobox.com X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4LJs961B9gz4lMw X-Spamd-Bar: --- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=pass header.d=pobox.com header.s=sasl header.b=TggrLrit; dmarc=pass (policy=none) header.from=pobox.com; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of jkeenan@pobox.com designates 173.228.157.53 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=jkeenan@pobox.com X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-3.08 / 15.00]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+ip4:173.228.157.0/24]; TO_DN_NONE(0.00)[]; RCVD_COUNT_THREE(0.00)[4]; DKIM_TRACE(0.00)[pobox.com:+]; DMARC_POLICY_ALLOW(-0.50)[pobox.com,none]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-0.98)[-0.982]; RECEIVED_SPAMHAUS_PBL(0.00)[24.185.115.142:received]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW(-0.10)[173.228.157.53:from]; SUBJECT_ENDS_QUESTION(1.00)[]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; DWL_DNSWL_NONE(0.00)[pobox.com:dkim]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.00)[-1.000]; R_DKIM_ALLOW(-0.20)[pobox.com:s=sasl]; RCVD_TLS_LAST(0.00)[]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; ASN(0.00)[asn:29838, ipnet:173.228.157.0/24, country:US]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; PREVIOUSLY_DELIVERED(0.00)[perl@freebsd.org]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-1.000]; RCPT_COUNT_ONE(0.00)[1]; MLMMJ_DEST(0.00)[perl] X-ThisMailContainsUnwantedMimeParts: N In the Perl core distribution, a bug ticket has been filed asserting that the commands 'perl -v' and 'perl -V' misdetect architecture on FreeBSD, at least on non-amd64 platforms such as powerpc, riscv and arm. The ticket is here: https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/19791 A pull request has been filed to correct this problem here: https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/19843 If there is any reader of this list -- particularly someone with access to FreeBSD on non-amd64 platforms -- who would care to comment on either the issue or the pull request, please do so. (The p.r. looks fine to me, but I'm only familiar with FreeBSD on amd64.) Thank you very much. Jim Keenan