b9eeeef8c0 breaks Log::Trace and other modules

[jkeenan]

Carlos Guevara has sent me a list of CPAN distributions which are failing tests against Perl 5 blead. I am trying to bisect these failures now. Since I suspect that more than one distribution will be broken by certain particular commits, I'm opening a separate ticket for each bad commit.

Log::Trace

Bisecting with this invocation:

$ perl Porting/bisect.pl \
--start=v5.41.8 \
--end=8d462f6a9e96adf5dac36c7e778468b78a47be96 \
--module=Log::Trace

... I got:

b9eeeef8c043fb0238a07e64636815bf327a6562 is the first bad commit
commit b9eeeef8c043fb0238a07e64636815bf327a6562
Author: Lukas Mai <l.mai@web.de>
Date:   Fri Feb 14 21:49:03 2025 +0100
Commit:     Lukas Mai <l.mai@web.de>
CommitDate: Sun Feb 16 01:42:36 2025 +0100

    op.c: re-enable coderef-in-stash optimization
    
    When seeing 'sub foo { ... }', perl does not need to allocate a full
    typeglob (with the subroutine being stored in the CODE slot). Instead,
    it can just store a coderef directly in the stash.

@mauke, please take a look.

For reference: The breaking commit was:

$ git describe
v5.41.8-98-gb9eeeef8c0

As I write this blead is at:

$ git describe
v5.41.8-119-g8d462f6a9e

Note: Right now the CPANtesters database is having difficulty receiving reports. So responding to BBC tickets is going to be more tedious than usual. See: https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers.discuss/2025/02/msg4654.html.

[jkeenan]

foundation:

perl Porting/bisect.pl \
--start=7fdc8f34fd20e8d4bec8de19f64c869b152f1249 \
end=8d462f6a9e96adf5dac36c7e778468b78a47be96 \
--module=foundation

b9eeeef8c043fb0238a07e64636815bf327a6562 is the first bad commit
commit b9eeeef8c043fb0238a07e64636815bf327a6562
Author: Lukas Mai <lukasmai.403@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri Feb 14 21:49:03 2025 +0100

    op.c: re-enable coderef-in-stash optimization
    

[jkeenan]

POE::Component::Basement:

perl Porting/bisect.pl \
--start=7fdc8f34fd20e8d4bec8de19f64c869b152f1249 \
end=8d462f6a9e96adf5dac36c7e778468b78a47be96 \
--module=POE::Component::Basement

b9eeeef8c043fb0238a07e64636815bf327a6562 is the first bad commit
commit b9eeeef8c043fb0238a07e64636815bf327a6562
Author: Lukas Mai <lukasmai.403@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri Feb 14 21:49:03 2025 +0100

    op.c: re-enable coderef-in-stash optimization

[jkeenan]

Prima:

http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/758df122-eeb8-11ef-881f-a6c9b3d6a9e5

perl Porting/bisect.pl \
--start=7fdc8f34fd20e8d4bec8de19f64c869b152f1249 \
end=8d462f6a9e96adf5dac36c7e778468b78a47be96 \
--module=Prima

b9eeeef is the first bad commit
commit b9eeeef
Author: Lukas Mai l.mai@web.de
Date: Fri Feb 14 21:49:03 2025 +0100

op.c: re-enable coderef-in-stash optimization

[jkeenan]

Symbol::Get:

http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/7c7a6254-eeb8-11ef-b0f7-f3945e623728

perl Porting/bisect.pl \
--start=7fdc8f34fd20e8d4bec8de19f64c869b152f1249 \
end=8d462f6a9e96adf5dac36c7e778468b78a47be96 \
--module=Symbol::Get

b9eeeef8c043fb0238a07e64636815bf327a6562 is the first bad commit
commit b9eeeef8c043fb0238a07e64636815bf327a6562
Author: Lukas Mai <lukasmai.403@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri Feb 14 21:49:03 2025 +0100

    op.c: re-enable coderef-in-stash optimization

@mauke, please take a look. Thanks.

[jkeenan]

Test::Sims:

http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/85edc448-eeb8-11ef-a7c3-9ed74f0d3477

$ perl Porting/bisect.pl \
--start=7fdc8f34fd20e8d4bec8de19f64c869b152f1249 \
end=8d462f6a9e96adf5dac36c7e778468b78a47be96 \
--module=Test::Sims

b9eeeef8c043fb0238a07e64636815bf327a6562 is the first bad commit
commit b9eeeef8c043fb0238a07e64636815bf327a6562
Author: Lukas Mai <l.mai@web.de>
Date:   Fri Feb 14 21:49:03 2025 +0100

    op.c: re-enable coderef-in-stash optimization

[mauke]

Log::Trace has been broken for a long time; its tests just didn't notice. For example:

$ perl -we 'sub foo { 42 } use Log::Trace warn => {AllSubs => 1};'
Not a GLOB reference at /home/mauke/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.40.1/lib/site_perl/5.40.1/Log/Trace.pm line 273.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at -e line 1.
$ perl -we 'package Bar; use constant FOO => 42;  use Log::Trace warn => {AllSubs => 1};'
Not a GLOB reference at /home/mauke/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.40.1/lib/site_perl/5.40.1/Log/Trace.pm line 273.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at -e line 1.

A patch for these issues as well as the recent blead failures has been available in https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49409 since 2017, courtesy of @cpansprout.

[mauke]

I'm not sure what to do about foundation. It looks unmaintained, the code is alpha quality, the POD contains errors, the name clashes with a system module on Mac OS (Foundation.pm), and the module is already broken:

$ perl -we '{ package Foo; use constant C => 42; } { package Bar; use foundation; foundation "Foo"; }'
Not a subroutine reference at /home/mauke/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.40.1/lib/site_perl/5.40.1/foundation.pm line 86.

I've submitted a bug report + patch at https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=159752.

[mauke]

POE::Component::Basement: bug report + patch at https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=159755

[mauke]

Test::Sims was theoretically fixed in 2018: schwern/Test-Sims#3
But the update was never released to CPAN.

[mauke]

I've reported the issue to Prima: dk/Prima#144 (including a patch that makes make test pass for me, but it needs review by someone more familiar with Perl or Prima internals)