unable to install perl 5.38.0 on AIX: ext/XS-APItest/t/locale.t test script is failing

[XSven]

Module
perl 5.38.0

Description
I am trying to install perl 5.38.0 using perlbrew (0.97 most recent) on an AIX system (7300-01-02-2320).

# Failed test 4 - dot not recognized in global comma locale for SvNV at t/locale.t line 53
#      got "4,888"
# expected "4"
../ext/XS-APItest/t/locale.t .........................................

Expected behavior
test should pass

perlbrew configure flags

PERLBREW_CONFIGURE_FLAGS=-de -Duse64bitall -Dusethreads -Duselargefiles -Dcc='gcc -maix64 -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=700' -Doptimize=-O2 -Dlibs='-lpthread -lbind -lnsl -lgdbm -ldbm -ldl -lld -lm -lcrypt -lpthreads -lc' -Dldflags='-Wl,-brtl,-bexpall,-bmaxdata:0x80000000,-blibpath:/usr/local/lib:/opt/freeware/lib:/usr/lib:/lib'

locale output

LANG=en_US
LC_COLLATE="en_US"
LC_CTYPE="en_US"
LC_MONETARY="en_US"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US"
LC_TIME="en_US"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US"
LC_ALL=

[demerphq]

@khwilliamson any ideas on this?

[khwilliamson]

I'm wondering if this is related to

commit 59b4d29
Author: Tony Cook tony@develop-help.com
Date: Mon May 15 07:40:54 2023 +0200

 AIX: skip some locale tests
 
 These tests fail on the EN_US.UTF-8 locale.
 
 Some fail due to a bug fixed in later AIX (lib/locale.t,
 t/run/locale.t) and the other due to an apparent bug in the locale
 itself.

 https://perl5.test-smoke.org/report/5034327

That commit relied on IBM's claim that as to when the bug was fixed:
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/apar/IV22097](url)

which was in version 7. The precise line in the commit is version->new(($Config{osvers} =~ /^(\d+(\.\d+))/)[0]) < 7

@XSven, a workaround might be to revise that line to look for a later version number, or to just skip those tests unconditionally on AIX.

5.38.1 could contain that revision.

I have in the pipeline a workaround patch for this AIX bug, but it is too complicated for a 5.38 dot release

[XSven]

I would like to share some related information.

I wanted to start with the en_US.UTF-8 (lowercase "en") locale on AIX. This locale is a common locale on LINUX distributions. I had issues to build rpms. This /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdeps invalid range expression is the AIX Open Source post that describes the datails. As a workaround I have switched to the legacy locale EN_US.UTF-8 (uppercase "en") you have mentioned.

I will have a look at your suggested workarounds. Thx.

[FractalBoy]

I'm not able to build perl at all on AIX in blead. I end up with a broken config.h, with these directives unmodified:

# PERL_LC_ALL_USES_NAME_VALUE_PAIRS     /**/
# PERL_LC_ALL_SEPARATOR         /**/
# PERL_LC_ALL_CATEGORY_POSITIONS_INIT   /**/

I believe this is caused by c4db344.

I thought this issue might be related, but let me know if I should open a new one.

[khwilliamson]

On 8/24/23 14:52, Marc Reisner wrote: I'm not able to build perl at all on AIX in blead. I end up with a broken config.h, with these directives unmodified: |# PERL_LC_ALL_USES_NAME_VALUE_PAIRS /**/ # PERL_LC_ALL_SEPARATOR /**/ # PERL_LC_ALL_CATEGORY_POSITIONS_INIT /**/ | I believe this is caused by c4db344 <c4db344>. I thought this issue might be related, but let me know if I should open a new one.

I don't think it is related. Have you done a full git clean -dfX before building ? When I run blead on AIX 5.3.0.0/TL12-05 IBM,9115-505 PowerPC_POWER5/1898(2) I get /*#define PERL_LC_ALL_USES_NAME_VALUE_PAIRS / **/ #define PERL_LC_ALL_SEPARATOR " " /**/ #define PERL_LC_ALL_CATEGORY_POSITIONS_INIT { 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 } /**/ which is correct

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[FractalBoy]

Yes, this happens with a full clean. I'm building on AIX 7.2. I was able to get it to compile by commenting out PERL_LC_ALL_SEPARATOR and PERL_LC_ALL_CATEGORY_POSITIONS_INIT and making PERL_LC_ALL_USES_NAME_VALUE_PAIRS defined.

These are my config params:

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 39 subversion 3) configuration:
  Commit id: 8aeff7429d036fd31ca832c387e64fadac51b0c8
  Platform:
    osname=aix
    osvers=7.2.0.0
    archname=aix-thread-multi-64all
    uname='aix vx-exc71 2 7 00fb201a4c00 powerpc aix '
    config_args='-Accflags=-DNO_POSIX_2008_LOCALE -Dusesizecustomize -Dusethreads -Dprefix=/epic/perl_build/myperl -des -Dbin=/epic/perl_build/myperl/bin -Dprivlib=/epic/perl_build/myperl/lib/no_arch -Darchlib=/epic/perl_build/myperl/lib/arch -Dsitelib=/epic/perl_build/myperl/lib/no_arch -Dsitearch=/epic/perl_build/myperl/lib/arch -Dusemorebits -Doptimize=-g -Alibpth=/lib /usr/lib /usr/ccs/lib -Alibs=-lc128 -lpthread -lbind -lnsl -ldbm -ldl -lld -lm -lcrypt -lpthreads -lc -Dusedevel'
    hint=previous
    useposix=true
    d_sigaction=define
    useithreads=define
    usemultiplicity=define
    use64bitint=define
    use64bitall=define
    uselongdouble=define
    usemymalloc=n
    default_inc_excludes_dot=define
  Compiler:
    cc='xlc -q64'
    ccflags ='-D_ALL_SOURCE -D_ANSI_C_SOURCE -D_POSIX_SOURCE -qmaxmem=-1 -qnoansialias -qlanglvl=extc99 -DUSE_NATIVE_DLOPEN -DNEED_PTHREAD_INIT -q64 -DUSE_64_BIT_ALL -q64 -DNO_POSIX_2008_LOCALE'
    optimize='-g'
    cppflags='-D_ALL_SOURCE -D_ANSI_C_SOURCE -D_POSIX_SOURCE -DUSE_NATIVE_DLOPEN -DNEED_PTHREAD_INIT'
    ccversion='11.1.0.24'
    gccversion=''
    gccosandvers=''
    intsize=4
    longsize=8
    ptrsize=8
    doublesize=8
    byteorder=87654321
    doublekind=4
    d_longlong=define
    longlongsize=8
    d_longdbl=define
    longdblsize=8
    longdblkind=0
    ivtype='long'
    ivsize=8
    nvtype='long double'
    nvsize=8
    Off_t='off_t'
    lseeksize=8
    alignbytes=8
    prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='ld'
    ldflags ='-brtl -bdynamic -b64'
    libpth=/lib /usr/lib /usr/ccs/lib /usr/lib64 /lib /usr/lib /usr/ccs/lib
    libs=-lpthread -lbind -ldbm -ldb -ldl -lld -lm -lcrypt -lpthreads -lc -lc128 -lpthread -lbind -lnsl -ldbm -ldl -lld -lm -lcrypt -lpthreads -lc
    perllibs=-lpthread -lbind -ldl -lld -lm -lcrypt -lpthreads -lc -lc128 -lpthread -lbind -lnsl -ldbm -ldl -lld -lm -lcrypt -lpthreads -lc
    libc=
    so=a
    useshrplib=false
    libperl=libperl.a
    gnulibc_version=''
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_aix.xs
    dlext=so
    d_dlsymun=undef
    ccdlflags='  -bE:/epic/perl_build/myperl/lib/5.39.3/aix-thread-multi-64all/CORE/perl.exp -bE:/epic/perl_build/myperl/lib/arch/CORE/perl.exp'
    cccdlflags=' '
    lddlflags='-b64 -bhalt:4 -G -bI:$(PERL_INC)/perl.exp -bE:$(BASEEXT).exp -bnoentry -lpthreads -lc -lm'


Characteristics of this binary (from libperl):
  Compile-time options:
    HAS_LONG_DOUBLE
    HAS_STRTOLD
    HAS_TIMES
    MULTIPLICITY
    PERLIO_LAYERS
    PERL_COPY_ON_WRITE
    PERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV
    PERL_HASH_FUNC_SIPHASH13
    PERL_HASH_USE_SBOX32
    PERL_MALLOC_WRAP
    PERL_OP_PARENT
    PERL_PRESERVE_IVUV
    PERL_USE_DEVEL
    PERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV
    USE_64_BIT_ALL
    USE_64_BIT_INT
    USE_ITHREADS
    USE_LARGE_FILES
    USE_LOCALE
    USE_LOCALE_COLLATE
    USE_LOCALE_CTYPE
    USE_LOCALE_NUMERIC
    USE_LOCALE_TIME
    USE_PERLIO
    USE_PERL_ATOF
    USE_REENTRANT_API
  Built under aix
  Compiled at Aug 24 2023 16:03:22
  %ENV:
    PERL="/epic/perl_build/myperl/bin/perl"
  @INC:
    /epic/perl_build/myperl/lib/arch
    /epic/perl_build/myperl/lib/no_arch
    /epic/perl_build/myperl/lib/arch
    /epic/perl_build/myperl/lib/no_arch