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diff --git a/doc/bugs/barfs_on_recentchange_entry_for_a_change_removing_an_invalid_pagespec.mdwn b/doc/bugs/barfs_on_recentchange_entry_for_a_change_removing_an_invalid_pagespec.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..18add0e1d --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/bugs/barfs_on_recentchange_entry_for_a_change_removing_an_invalid_pagespec.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +I have a commit doing + + -\[[map pages="link(tag/<TMPL_VAR name>) and !papers/*"]] + +\[[map pages="link(sourcepage()) and !papers/*"]] + +ikiwiki now fails to compile the site, barfing: + + Use of uninitialized value in subroutine entry at /usr/share/perl5/IkiWiki.pm line 1288. + ikiwiki.setup: Can't use string ("") as a subroutine ref while "strict refs" in use at /usr/share/perl5/IkiWiki.pm line 1288. + BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 6) line 200. + +after forcefully entering the Perl mode of thinking, I reduced this to line +1285 of IkiWiki.pm (2.53), which apparently returns `undef`: + + my $sub=pagespec_translate($spec); + +Why does it even bother parsing the diffs of `recentchanges`? + +I have not recompiled this site in ages, so I am not sure when this problem +was introduced, but it wasn't there when I worked on the site last about +a year ago in September 2007. + +-- [[madduck]] |