Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2017 12:08:58 -0700 From: Crew <carborundumcrew@infogalactic.com> To: freebsd-perl@freebsd.org Subject: Weird issue with PERL hashes on FreeBSD with EasyTimeline.pl that does not occur on RHEL 7.2 Message-ID: <789ab286c78d90e4077033fb589f3d29@infogalactic.com>
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An issue has turned up, seemingly with PERL hashes on FreeBSD
10.3-STABLE and 10.3-RELEASE-p21.
It involves a PERL script called EasyTimeline.pl. I have a simple
reproducer that involves running EasyTimeline.pl with some input data
(but you also need ploticus installed.)
When run on those two versions of FreeBSD the script will fail something
like one out of five to seven times, but on RHEL 7.2 it never fails. On
FreeBSD it will often fail the first time it is run, and then will
succeed for the next five or so attempts and then fail again.
It seems to relate to one key in a hash being a proper prefix of another
and the order in which the keys are in the hash. In this case the keys
are "grid" and "gridcolor".
I can supply the reproducer.
Does anyone have any ideas what might be causing this?
The following shows two sequential executions of the test on FreeBSD
10.3-RELEASE-p21:
crew@XXXserver:~/timeline-test % sh -vx easytl.sh
/usr/local/bin/perl ./EasyTimeline.pl -i ./timeline_xxx -m -P
/usr/local/bin/ploticus -T /tmp/ -A '/yyy/$1' -f FreeSans
+ /usr/local/bin/perl ./EasyTimeline.pl -i ./timeline_xxx -m -P
/usr/local/bin/ploticus -T /tmp/ -A '/yyy/$1' -f FreeSans
EasyTimeline version 1.15
Copyright (C) 2004 Erik Zachte
Email xxx@chello.nl (nospam: xxx=epzachte)
This program is free software; you can redistribute it
and/or modify it under the terms of the
GNU General Public License version 2 as published by
the Free Software Foundation
------------------------------------------------------
OS freebsd detected -> environment = Linux, create image in png format.
Input: Script file ./timeline_xxx
Output: Image files ./timeline_xxx.png & ./timeline_xxx.svg
Map file ./timeline_xxx.map (add to html for clickable map)
No external fonts specified in input ->
Treat input as ascii and use internal Ploticus font.
Ploticus input file = '/tmp//EasyTimeline.txt.23941'
Generating output:
Invoke Ploticus exe file as '/usr/local/bin/ploticus'
Running Ploticus to generate svg file
'/usr/local/bin/ploticus' -svg -o './timeline_xxx.svg'
'/tmp//EasyTimeline.txt.23941' -tightcrop
Running Ploticus to generate bitmap
'/usr/local/bin/ploticus' -png -o './timeline_xxx.png'
'/tmp//EasyTimeline.txt.23941' -tightcrop
READY
No errors found.
crew@XXXserver:~/timeline-test % sh -vx easytl.sh
/usr/local/bin/perl ./EasyTimeline.pl -i ./timeline_xxx -m -P
/usr/local/bin/ploticus -T /tmp/ -A '/yyy/$1' -f FreeSans
+ /usr/local/bin/perl ./EasyTimeline.pl -i ./timeline_xxx -m -P
/usr/local/bin/ploticus -T /tmp/ -A '/yyy/$1' -f FreeSans
EasyTimeline version 1.15
Copyright (C) 2004 Erik Zachte
Email xxx@chello.nl (nospam: xxx=epzachte)
This program is free software; you can redistribute it
and/or modify it under the terms of the
GNU General Public License version 2 as published by
the Free Software Foundation
------------------------------------------------------
OS freebsd detected -> environment = Linux, create image in png format.
Input: Script file ./timeline_xxx
Output: Image files ./timeline_xxx.png & ./timeline_xxx.svg
Map file ./timeline_xxx.map (add to html for clickable map)
No external fonts specified in input ->
Treat input as ascii and use internal Ploticus font.
***** 1 error found *****
Line 8: ScaleMajor = unit:year increment:20 start:1605
gridcolor:paleGray
- Scale attribute 'grid' invalid. Unknown color ''.
Specify command 'Color' before this command.
Execution aborted.
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