From: Alexander Bluhm <bluhm@openbsd.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] Re: OpenBSD perl 5.42.0 - Call for Testing
To: James Cook <falsifian@falsifian.org>
Cc: Andrew Hewus Fresh <andrew@afresh1.com>, tech@openbsd.org
Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2026 23:16:42 +0100

On Sat, Jan 03, 2026 at 05:29:03PM +0000, James Cook wrote:
> (BTW, is there a reliable way to build/test only gnu/usr.bin/perl in
> OpenBSD's source tree? In order to test this patch, I just followed the
> release(8) instructions excluding xenocara, which feels like overkill,
> but I didn't want to make assumptions (e.g: I can just follow perl's
> build instructions) or spend too much time digging into the build
> system internals.)

Checkout the full tree in /usr/src.  Apply patches.
And then rebuild and install Perl:

    cd /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/perl
    make -f Makefile.bsd-wrapper obj
    make -f Makefile.bsd-wrapper
    make -f Makefile.bsd-wrapper install

Afterwards you can run the Perl test suite like this:

    cd /usr/src/regress/gnu/usr.bin/perl
    make regress

bluhm