Upstream bug: https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=133760 Example program showing the bug on perl versions 5.26 and 5.28 on musl systems: $x = "1_1"; $y = "1_1"; print index($x, $y); This should print 0, on affected setups it typically prints a large negative number. Among other things, this breaks the openssl build system: https://github.com/openssl/openssl/issues/8032 Upstream has a series of 5 patches that seem to resolve this issue: https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commit/ca152fd8207cf53816b1407d5f54f6ea160a3ef8 https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commit/63c1fa6a98bc60234a21de83dd191cd581a5d073 https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commit/f8d82a1010426d0eb49c33cb903413b882c85c3e https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commit/ba73a4cb8f472480a2d630613d1e9e1172d518d3 https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commit/04db542212fdad3a62f13afe741c99028f4bf799 Unfortunately, it disables the memmem optimizations for gentoo musl users (the ldd test doesn't work). This is still superior to the current breakage.
I am aware of the issue, see [1]. I was waiting for the perl team to come up with a fix --- thanks for bringing it to my attention. I'd urge the perl team to add those patches since they are from upstream and they fix a serious issue with gentoo/musl. Ref. [1] https://github.com/gentoo/musl/pull/205
This will be fixed in 5.28.2 (out soon and in preparation).
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=2f7a94dc3f57dc784e88c85516c7bfcc4e3bf5f9 commit 2f7a94dc3f57dc784e88c85516c7bfcc4e3bf5f9 Author: Andreas K. Hüttel <dilfridge@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2019-04-19 15:57:12 +0000 Commit: Andreas K. Hüttel <dilfridge@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2019-04-19 16:52:03 +0000 package.mask: Unmask Perl 5.28.2 Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/610384 Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/670190 Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/677012 Signed-off-by: Andreas K. Hüttel <dilfridge@gentoo.org> profiles/package.mask | 7 ------- 1 file changed, 7 deletions(-)
Fixed in 5.28.2
