[debbugs-tracker] bug#23077: closed (Perl's closure is too big)

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regarding Perl's closure is too big
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> Perl's closure is too big
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> Mon, 21 Mar 2016 09:30:26 -0400
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> If you run 'guix size perl' you will notice that, as of this writing,
> 138.2MiB of Perls' 307.6MiB closure is due to referencing gcc's
> default output in '/lib/perl5/5.22.1/x86_64-linux/Config_heavy.pl'.
> Perl's large closure inflates the closures of many other packages,
> such as openssl.
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> Does anyone familiar with Perl know if we really need to a reference
> to GCC here?  Would be great to remove it. :)
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> - Dave
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> "Thompson, David" <address@hidden> skribis:
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> > If you run 'guix size perl' you will notice that, as of this writing,
> > 138.2MiB of Perls' 307.6MiB closure is due to referencing gcc's
> > default output in '/lib/perl5/5.22.1/x86_64-linux/Config_heavy.pl'.
> > Perl's large closure inflates the closures of many other packages,
> > such as openssl.
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> Fixed in 81cea47d4a4c0054beb234004b990d6f514d0514 on ‘core-updates’.
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> Most likely this was a regression introduced with the upgrade to 5.22 in
> 4de35074833742e45237464bb1727ce1a55f3336.  Previously the issue had been
> addressed in f727ec5bc8a6f97ae1083026e508b917235dfd2d.
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> Thanks,
> Ludo’.
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