Bug 7423 - 2: Numerous perl bugs when launching mcc
Summary: 2: Numerous perl bugs when launching mcc
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: Mageia
Classification: Unclassified
Component: RPM Packages (show other bugs)
Version: 2
Hardware: x86_64 Linux
Priority: Normal normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Thierry Vignaud
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Reported: 2012-09-09 23:25 CEST by Bit Twister
Modified: 2012-09-11 17:53 CEST (History)
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Source RPM: drakxtools-14.22.2-1.1.mga2.src.rpm
CVE:
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mcc bug text (6.23 KB, text/plain)
2012-09-09 23:26 CEST, Bit Twister 		Details
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Description Bit Twister 2012-09-09 23:25:23 CEST 
Description of problem:
Numerous perl bugs when launching mcc. See bug.txt attachment

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible: Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. click up a terminal
2. su - root
3. mcc
Comment 1 Bit Twister 2012-09-09 23:26:36 CEST 
Created attachment 2778 [details]
mcc bug text
Manuel Hiebel 2012-09-11 10:19:03 CEST

See Also: (none) => https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7428
Assignee: bugsquad => thierry.vignaud

Comment 2 Thierry Vignaud 2012-09-11 11:11:50 CEST 
Those are not errors but regular warnings.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => INVALID

Comment 3 Bit Twister 2012-09-11 13:57:04 CEST 
I feel sorry for the QA people and any other programmers who have to lose time scanning that output looking for new bugs. :(

I really wish I was a competent Perl coder so I could help. 
I would guess it would take about 20 minutes to clear up those messages.
Comment 4 Thierry Vignaud 2012-09-11 16:47:45 CEST 
A "use diagnostics" or "use warning" must have remain somewhere...
Comment 5 Bit Twister 2012-09-11 17:53:18 CEST 
What little Perl programming I do has made fixing problem faster with Perl telling me about wrong types and whatnot.

I just went to check my memory in harddrake2 where it does not show up. :(
I saw 
Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at
        /usr/lib/libDrakX/harddrake/data.pm line 25 (#4)
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at
        /usr/sbin/harddrake2 line 437 (#4)

Argument "0x1d6b" isn't numeric in numeric eq (==) at
        /usr/lib/libDrakX/detect_devices.pm line 124 (#6)
    (W numeric) The indicated string was fed as an argument to an operator
    that expected a numeric value instead.  If you're fortunate the message
    will identify which operator was so unfortunate.
    
Guessing some of that clean up would fix bug 5810
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