850778 – dev-tex/biber-2.16 fails to run on systems using perl-5.36 due to missing semicolon

Bug 850778 - dev-tex/biber-2.16 fails to run on systems using perl-5.36 due to missing semicolon

Summary: dev-tex/biber-2.16 fails to run on systems using perl-5.36 due to missing sem...

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 850733

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	AMD64 Linux

Importance:	Normal major
Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers

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Reported:	2022-06-09 18:53 UTC by Chris
Modified:	2022-06-10 02:17 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Patch (biber-2.16-fix-missing-semicolon.patch,330 bytes, patch) 2022-06-09 18:55 UTC, Chris	Details \| Diff
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Description Chris 2022-06-09 18:53:24 UTC

Running biber on a system with perl-5.36 fails with the following error message:

Can't modify undef operator in scalar assignment at /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.36/Biber/Section.pm line 373, near "undef;"
Compilation failed in require at /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.36/Biber.pm line 24.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.36/Biber.pm line 24.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/bin/biber line 17.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/bin/biber line 17.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run unpatched biber on system with perl-5.36

Actual Results:  
biber fails to run with this error message:

Can't modify undef operator in scalar assignment at /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.36/Biber/Section.pm line 373, near "undef;"
Compilation failed in require at /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.36/Biber.pm line 24.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.36/Biber.pm line 24.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/bin/biber line 17.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/bin/biber line 17.


Expected Results:  
biber runs normally.

Upstream pull request: https://github.com/plk/biber/pull/411

Comment 1 Chris 2022-06-09 18:55:30 UTC

Created attachment 783773 [details, diff]
Patch

Patch that fixes the issue.

Comment 2 Sam James archtester

2022-06-10 02:17:00 UTC

Thanks for the report.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 850733 ***