From @schwern

My co-worker ran into this problem. It appears that a compiled regex
used inside a /x pattern needs to be /x as well. The following
demonstrates​:

$pat = 'foo';
$c_pat = qr/foo/;
$c_pat_fixed = qr/foo/x;

$string = 'foo';

$\ = $/;
print 'normal​: ', $string =~ / $pat /x ? 'Yes' : 'No';
print 'qr​: ', $string =~ / $c_pat /x ? 'Yes' : 'No';
print 'fixed qr​: ', $string =~ / $c_pat_fixed /x ? 'Yes' : 'No';

I've noted this failure under 5.005_03/Linux and 5.005_02/Linux

Site configuration information for perl 5.00503:

Configured by root at Mon May 10 08:16:17 EDT 1999.

Summary of my perl5 (5.0 patchlevel 5 subversion 3) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=linux, osvers=2.0.36, archname=i686-linux
    uname='linux sparta 2.0.36 #2 sun feb 21 15:55:27 est 1999 i686 unknown '
    hint=previous, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=undef useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='gcc', optimize='-O6', gccversion=2.7.2.3
    cppflags='-Dbool=char -DHAS_BOOL -I/usr/local/include'
    ccflags ='-Dbool=char -DHAS_BOOL -I/usr/local/include'
    stdchar='char', d_stdstdio=define, usevfork=false
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
    alignbytes=4, usemymalloc=y, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
    libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib
    libs=-lnsl -lndbm -ldb -ldl -lm -lc -lposix -lcrypt
    libc=, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-rdynamic -Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib/perl5/i686-linux/CORE'
    cccdlflags='-fpic', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib'

Locally applied patches:
    


@INC for perl 5.00503:
    /home/schwern/lib/perl5/5.005
    /home/schwern/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i686-linux
    /home/schwern/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005
    /usr/lib/perl5/i686-linux
    /usr/lib/perl5
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i686-linux
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005
    .


Environment for perl 5.00503:
    HOME=/home/schwern
    LANG=C
    LANGUAGE (unset)
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
    LOGDIR (unset)
    PATH=/home/schwern/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:.
    PERL5LIB=/home/schwern/lib/perl5/5.005:/home/schwern/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005
    PERL_BADLANG (unset)
    SHELL=/bin/bash

-- 

Michael G Schwern                                           schwern@pobox.com
                    http://www.pobox.com/~schwern
     /(?:(?:(1)[.-]?)?\(?(\d{3})\)?[.-]?)?(\d{3})[.-]?(\d{4})(x\d+)?/i

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of some type

Richard Foley

Richard.Foley@​m.dasa.de
"Ciao" - (shorter than 'Aufwiedersehen' :-)

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reply_3

Richard Foley

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"Ciao" - (shorter than 'Aufwiedersehen' :-)

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Richard Foley

Richard.Foley@​m.dasa.de
"Ciao" - (shorter than 'Aufwiedersehen' :-)

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  reply_1

Richard Foley

Richard.Foley@​m.dasa.de
"Ciao" - (shorter than 'Aufwiedersehen' :-)

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Richard Foley

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a reply sent today to see how things are in the DB :-)

Richard Foley

Richard.Foley@​m.dasa.de
"Ciao" - (shorter than 'Aufwiedersehen' :-)

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von​: Gurusamy Sarathy [mailto​:gsar@​ActiveState.com]
Gesendet am​: Friday, July 02, 1999 2​:53 AM
An​: hv@​crypt0.demon.co.uk
Cc​: Foley, Richard; perl5-porters@​perl.org
Betreff​: Re​: AW​: [ID 19990630.004] -> RF in From (help requested)

On Thu, 01 Jul 1999 22​:56​:40 BST, Hugo van der Sanden wrote​:

In <A11512FA21D5D111A04800805F85B9240248435D@​s70a91.otn.lm.dasa.de>,
"Foley, Richard" writes​:
​: $ok = $self->send_mail($hdr, $body);

Is this using sendmail? If I remember correctly, sendmail
only allows you
to lie about the From address if you are a 'trusted user'.

A temporary solution might be to add a 'Reply-to' list of p5p and the
originator​: people's autoquoting will still claim that you wrote the
message, but at least they'll be able to reply to the correct person.
(In fact, the list should probably have perlbug rather than p5p so
that replies get picked up by the bugtron.)

Ugh. Reply-To's are awful. If it takes running sendmail as a
trusted user, by all means run the thing as a trusted user.

If that can't be done for some reason, I think the bugtron should
simply do the same thing 'dist' (in MH) does. I'm no sendmail
expert, but sticking in a Resent-From header may do the trick.

Sarathy
gsar@​activestate.com