Explicitly specify Scalar::Util dep, and work around RT#80646 on travis

The inability to install Scalar::Util did not abort the cpan runs, and
therefore revealed a nasty bug in first() that is present on all perl-bundled
List::Utils until 5.8.8

diff --git a/Makefile.PL b/Makefile.PL
index 8162234..b5c2368 100644 (file)
--- a/Makefile.PL
+++ b/Makefile.PL
@@ -47,6 +47,13 @@ my $runtime_requires = {
   # being
   'DBI'                      => '1.57',
 
+  # on older versions first() leaks
+  # for the time being make it a hard dep - when we get
+  # rid of Sub::Name will revisit this (possibility is
+  # to use Devel::HideXS to force the pure-perl version
+  # or something like that)
+  'List::Util'               => '1.16',
+
   # XS (or XS-dependent) libs
   'Sub::Name'                => '0.04',
 

diff --git a/maint/travis-ci_prepare_env b/maint/travis-ci_prepare_env
index 561790f..6e2b90e 100755 (executable)
--- a/maint/travis-ci_prepare_env
+++ b/maint/travis-ci_prepare_env
@@ -301,6 +301,11 @@ if [[ "$CLEANTEST" = "true" ]]; then
 
 ##### TEMPORARY WORKAROUNDS
 
+  # List::Util got broken rather badly (RT#80646)
+  # install without tests for the time being
+  perl -M5.014 -e 1 &>/dev/null || \
+    parallel_installdeps_notest List::Util
+
   # not sure what's going on here yet
   perl -M5.008008 -e 1 &> /dev/null || \
     parallel_installdeps_notest multidimensional bareword::filehandles