Re: [OE-core] [PATCH] perl: upgrade from 5.40.2 to 5.42.0

[Changqing Li <changqing.li@windriver.com>]

On 2/25/26 18:11, Mathieu Dubois-Briand wrote:
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> On Tue Feb 24, 2026 at 2:46 AM CET, Changqing Li via lists.openembedded.org wrote:
>> License-Update: Update copies of GPL to match recent FSF changes
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>> Signed-off-by: Changqing Li <changqing.li@windriver.com>
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> Hi Changqing,
>
> Thanks for your patch.
>
> It looks like some ptest is failing. I suspect the fail comes from the
> perl upgrade:
>
> WARNING: core-image-ptest-libmodule-build-perl-1.0-r0 do_testimage: There were failing ptests.
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/qemux86-64-ptest/build/layers/openembedded-core/meta/lib/oeqa/core/decorator/__init__.py", line 35, in wrapped_f
>      return func(*args, **kwargs)
>    File "/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/qemux86-64-ptest/build/layers/openembedded-core/meta/lib/oeqa/core/decorator/__init__.py", line 35, in wrapped_f
>      return func(*args, **kwargs)
>    File "/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/qemux86-64-ptest/build/layers/openembedded-core/meta/lib/oeqa/core/decorator/__init__.py", line 35, in wrapped_f
>      return func(*args, **kwargs)
>    File "/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/qemux86-64-ptest/build/layers/openembedded-core/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/ptest.py", line 27, in test_ptestrunner_expectfail
>      self.do_ptestrunner()
>    File "/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/qemux86-64-ptest/build/layers/openembedded-core/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/ptest.py", line 120, in do_ptestrunner
>      self.fail(failmsg)
> AssertionError:
> Failed ptests:
> {'libmodule-build-perl': ['t/xs']}

Hi, Mathieu,

I cannot reproduce this locally,  in my test env,  the missing package 
is installed as a dependency by someone.

But I think I have find the issue and  send V2, please help to test with 
V2. Thanks.

Regards

Changqing


> https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/73/builds/3155
> https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/61/builds/3114
> https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/56/builds/1126
>
> Test logs can be found here:
>
> https://valkyrie.yocto.io/pub/non-release/20260225-48/testresults/qemuarm64-ptest/core-image-ptest-libmodule-build-perl/
> https://valkyrie.yocto.io/pub/non-release/20260225-48/testresults/qemux86-64-ptest/core-image-ptest-libmodule-build-perl/
>
> Can you have a look at the issues?
>
> Thanks,
> Mathieu
>
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