perl 5.40.1 and 5.38.3 builds

[shawnlaffan]

List of tasks for the upcoming point releases.

Extlibs:

• Update libxml. Security vulnerability CVE-2024-40896 in libxml2 in Strawberry Perl Distribution #229
• GMP build flags build-extlibs#61
• Finish list in extlib version updates for perl 5.40 build-extlibs#55 (comment)

Perl::Dist::Strawberry

• Set the optimisation back to -O2, or possibly -O2 -fno-prefetch-loop-arrays to get the same set we have now without any additional -Os changes. test failures on Strawberry Perl 5.40.0 PDLPorters/pdl#522 (comment) (but see discussion in optimization: -O2 vs -Os #232)
• Ensure we install all the PDL extras now they have been separated to their own distros, except perhaps PDL::Slatec which is deprecated. PDL split meta-issue PDLPorters/pdl#119 (comment)
• Dual life updates - install to .../perl/vendor/ #222
• Re-enable Spreadsheet::ParseXLSX #214
• Re-enable the Crypto modules. These were disabled when building 5.39 due to CryptX failing, but it builds now.

[shawnlaffan]

XML::LibXML has issues with recent versions of libxml2: https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=157693

Update: Worked around by using a slightly older version that is not affected by the CVE.

[shawnlaffan]

PDL::IO::DBI fails some of its tests. PDL is 2.099 (latest on CPAN). It also fails with SP 5.40.0 when PDL is built using current git HEAD.

Passes when built against PDL 2.089.

Disabling for now.

Building and testing PDL-IO-DBI-0.012 ... cp lib/PDL/IO/DBI.pm blib\lib\PDL\IO\DBI.pm
"C:\strawberry\perl\bin\perl.exe" "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-MTest::Harness" "-e" "undef *Test::Harness::Switches; test_harness(0, 'blib\lib', 'blib\arch')" t/*.t
t/compile.t ........ ok
t/db-odbc-mssql.t .. skipped: PDL_IO_DBI_ODBC_MSSQL_TEST_DSN not set
t/db-postgresql.t .. skipped: PDL_IO_DBI_PG_TEST_DSN not set
# no PDL::DateTime
t/db-sqlite.t ...... ok
Trying to upd_data but datasv now length 20 instead of 0 at C:\strawberry_build\env\AppDataRoaming\.cpanm\work\1737637280.6864\PDL-IO-DBI-0.012\blib\lib/PDL/IO/DBI.pm line 188.
# Tests were run but no plan was declared and done_testing() was not seen.
# Looks like your test exited with 2 just after 37.
t/reuse_sth.t ......
Dubious, test returned 2 (wstat 512, 0x200)
All 37 subtests passed

Update:
This can be attributed to a recent change in PDL. PDLPorters/pdl@5f6c93b
The fix needs to be in PDL::IO::DBI so will leave it disabled until then.

Update 2: Reported to kmx/pdl-io-dbi#3

[shawnlaffan]

Dev release at https://github.com/StrawberryPerl/Perl-Dist-Strawberry/releases/tag/dev_5401_20250124_gcc13

Please test.

[wesQ3]

Hi, thanks for your work on Strawberry Perl.

Dev build is looking good on my end so far.

[twata1]

It seems to me that fail to build Math::Pari again.

Please see http://fast-matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=Math-Pari%202.030523

[shawnlaffan]

It seems to me that fail to build Math::Pari again.

Please see http://fast-matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=Math-Pari%202.030523

The same build failures occur with SP 5.40.0.1 so this seems not to be a new problem. I can also reproduce locally with 5.40.0.1. See error below.

In file included from C:\perls\5.40.0.1_PDL\perl\lib\CORE/inline.h:1506,
                 from C:\perls\5.40.0.1_PDL\perl\lib\CORE/perl.h:7866,
                 from Pari.xs:51:
pari-2.3.5/src64/headers/parigen.h:21:14: error: conflicting types for 'llabs'; have 'long int(long int)'
   21 | #define labs llabs
      |              ^~~~~
In file included from C:/perls/5.40.0.1_PDL/c/lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/13.2.0/include/mm_malloc.h:27,
                 from C:/perls/5.40.0.1_PDL/c/lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/13.2.0/include/xmmintrin.h:34,
                 from C:/perls/5.40.0.1_PDL/c/lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/13.2.0/include/immintrin.h:31,
                 from C:/perls/5.40.0.1_PDL/c/lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/13.2.0/include/x86intrin.h:32,
                 from C:/perls/5.40.0.1_PDL/c/x86_64-w64-mingw32/include/winnt.h:1658,
                 from C:/perls/5.40.0.1_PDL/c/x86_64-w64-mingw32/include/minwindef.h:163,
                 from C:/perls/5.40.0.1_PDL/c/x86_64-w64-mingw32/include/windef.h:9,
                 from C:/perls/5.40.0.1_PDL/c/x86_64-w64-mingw32/include/windows.h:69,
                 from Pari.xs:3:
C:/perls/5.40.0.1_PDL/c/x86_64-w64-mingw32/include/stdlib.h:735:52: note: previous definition of 'llabs' with type 'long long int(long long int)'
  735 |   __MINGW_EXTENSION __CRT_INLINE long long __cdecl llabs(long long _j) { return (_j >= 0 ? _j : -_j); }
      |                                                    ^~~~~
gmake: *** [makefile:352: Pari.o] Error 1

With SP 5.38.0.1 it gets into an infinite loop reporting patching file src/language/init.c.