Hi, Perl 5.42 will be released shortly. Testing texinfo-7.2 (but also trunk) with perl-5.42.0_rc2, I see many test failures:
[...] FAIL: test_scripts/layout_formatting_fr.sh make[6]: Leaving directory '/home/sam/git/texinfo/tp/tests' make[6]: Entering directory '/home/sam/git/texinfo/tp/tests' ============================================================================ Testsuite summary for GNU Texinfo 7.1.1 ============================================================================ # TOTAL: 110 # PASS: 8 # SKIP: 34 # XFAIL: 0 # FAIL: 68 # XPASS: 0 # ERROR: 0 ============================================================================ See tp/tests/test-suite.log for debugging. Some test(s) failed. Please report this to bug-texinfo@gnu.org, together with the test-suite.log file (gzipped) and your system information. Thanks. ============================================================================ make[6]: *** [Makefile:2313: test-suite.log] Error 1 make[6]: Leaving directory '/home/sam/git/texinfo/tp/tests' All of them look like: diff -a -u -r ./formatting//res_parser/split_nocopying_split_dev_null/split_nocopying.2 formatting//out_parser/split_nocopying_split_dev_null/split_nocopying.2 --- ./formatting//res_parser/split_nocopying_split_dev_null/split_nocopying.2 2023-11-01 16:19:12.666464731 +0000 +++ formatting//out_parser/split_nocopying_split_dev_null/split_nocopying.2 2025-06-30 06:40:57.633221947 +0100 @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Possible precedence problem between ! and string eq at ../../tp/Texinfo/Convert/Info.pm line 103. D: formatting//diffs/split_nocopying_split_dev_null.diff (printed above) testdir: formatting/ driving_file: ./formatting//list-of-tests made result dir: ./formatting//res_parser/ i.e. they're all from a new precedence warning in Perl. thanks, sam