Re: cfbot is failing all tests on FreeBSD/Meson builds

On Thu, Feb 8, 2024 at 3:53 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 5:06 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> >> Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> >>> Ahh, there is one: https://github.com/cpan-authors/IO-Tty/issues/38
>
> >> Just for the archives' sake: I hit this today on a fresh install
> >> of FreeBSD 14.0, which has pulled in p5-IO-Tty-1.18. Annoying...
>
> > FWIW here's what I did to downgrade:
>
> Thanks for the recipe --- this worked for me, although I noticed
> it insisted on installing perl5.34-5.34.3_3 alongside 5.36.
> Doesn't seem to be a problem though --- the main perl installation
> is still 5.36.

Looks like CI is broken in this way again, as of ~13 hours ago.
Looking into that...

> Also, I'm not entirely convinced that the above-cited issue report is
> complaining about the same thing that's biting us. The reported error
> messages are completely different.

You could be right about that. It seems there was a clash between an
upstream commit and a patch in FBSD's port tree, which has just been
removed:

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=276535

So perhaps it's time for me to undo what I did before... looking now.