Project:Perl/5.22 Known Issues


 * >=sys-libs/zlib-1.2.9 breaks perl tests and niche uses of Compress::Raw::Zlib, RT#119762

Packages needing upgrade

 * >=dev-perl/List-MoreUtils-0.402.0 (otherwise does not compile, RT#123479, stabilization in, fixed 2015-12-26 14:51:48 UTC with dev-perl/List-MoreUtils-0.413.0)
 * >=dev-perl/Exporter-Tiny-0.42.0 (needed by List-MoreUtils, stabilization in, fixed 2015-12-26 14:51:48 UTC)
 * >=dev-perl/PadWalker-2.100.0 (otherwise does not build,, stabilization in , fixed 2015-12-07 11:44:02 UTC with dev-perl/PadWalker-2.100.0)
 * >=app-shells/psh-1.8.1-r2 (otherwise broken install,, fixed 2015-12-03 17:20:53 UTC with app-shells/psh-1.8.1-r2)
 * www-apache/mod_perl, causes apache to segfault if used with perl-5.22,, fixed 2016-01-09 19:31:02 UTC with www-apache/mod_perl-2.0.8-r3)

Perl-cleaner rebuilds

 * media-gfx/graphviz (needs stabilization of an EAPI=5 version,, fixed 2016-06-05 00:12:26 UTC with media-gfx/graphviz-2.38.0-r1)
 * net-fs/samba (missing perl dependency,, fixed 2016-05-21 21:42:42 UTC)

Other
* Detected file collision(s): * *      /usr/share/man/man1/encguess.1.bz2 *     /usr/bin/encguess (best ignore it and re-run emerge with FEATURES=protect-owned)

time based tests go to lunch on some hardware
If the following code doesn't occupy any user time, similar to shown time seq 0 100000000 >/dev/null

real   0m1.367s user   0m0.000s sys    0m1.009s

Then your kernel is doing time accounting wrong.

You might need any of the above reconfigured
 * RCU
 * Things relating to NOHZ
 * ClockSources