Is Ubuntu 8.04/Perl 5.8.8 no longer supported ?

[erland]

> Can you see which commit that comes before
> 6a22053ab80130ae380828ff4ed681096fe6c884 in 7.9 branch ?

6ed5ccac9c90ef48b4e78682026573971f1406d5

the --first-parent option might be what you're looking for:

git log --first-parent

Thanks that helped a bit.

I've gone back in 7.9 and the problem seems to start with the following commit: 7672a9aa4113005687112cd8a9eda728c6b19b09
https://github.com/Logitech/slimserv...eda728c6b19b09

The commit before that (cfe5ec0b1c09fabd9c65e66366a781e3f8ecf0e2) works properly but with the above commit at May 22'nd 2018 the Segmentation Fault problem starts. I think this was also introduced in 7.9 which explains why 7.7 and 7.8 works properly but the 7.9 and 8.0 branch doesn't.

If I apply the following on the latest 7.9 it starts to work again in my setup (this is probably not correct solution though since it removes support for Audio::Scan 0.99):

diff --git a/lib/Audio/Scan.pm b/lib/Audio/Scan.pm
index 5741bfd..4584fda 100644
--- a/lib/Audio/Scan.pm
+++ b/lib/Audio/Scan.pm
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ our $VERSION;
 require XSLoader;
 
 BEGIN {
-       foreach ('0.99', '0.93', '0.95', '0.94') {
+       foreach ('0.93', '0.95', '0.94') {
                eval { XSLoader::load('Audio::Scan', $_); };
                
                if (!$@) {

The above also solves the Segmentation Fault on latest public/8.0 version but 8.0 now instead fails with this error which I guess might be related to perl 5.8.8 ?

Bareword found where operator expected at /media/disk2/squeezecenter/8.0/server/Slim/Player/ProtocolHandlers.pm line 117, near "return $handler && $handler =~ /::"
  (Might be a runaway multi-line // string starting on line 114)
	(Do you need to predeclare return?)
Search pattern not terminated at /media/disk2/squeezecenter/8.0/server/Slim/Player/ProtocolHandlers.pm line 117.
Compilation failed in require at /media/disk2/squeezecenter/8.0/server/Slim/Music/Info.pm line 31.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /media/disk2/squeezecenter/8.0/server/Slim/Music/Info.pm line 31.
Compilation failed in require at /media/disk2/squeezecenter/8.0/server/Slim/Utils/Misc.pm line 48.
Compilation failed in require at /opt/squeezecenter80/slimserver.pl line 234.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /opt/squeezecenter80/slimserver.pl line 234.

[mherger]

> If I apply the following on the latest 7.9 it starts to work again in my
> setup (this is probably not correct solution though since it removes
> support for Audio::Scan 0.99):

Instead of fiddling with core files you could try to compile Audio::Scan
for your platform and put it in your CPAN/arch folder (inside LMS).

> The above also solves the Segmentation Fault on latest public/8.0
> version but 8.0 now instead fails with this error which I guess might be
> related to perl 5.8.8 ?
>
> Code:
> --------------------
>
> Bareword found where operator expected at /media/disk2/squeezecenter/8.0/server/Slim/Player/ProtocolHandlers.pm line 117, near "return $handler && $handler =~ /::"
> (Might be a runaway multi-line // string starting on line 114)

That "//" statement indeed is relatively new. What if you replaced it
with "||"? Or put it on one line? "//" is an operator I didn't even know
before that pull request :-)

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Michael