[OE-core] [PATCH 1/1] perl-native_5.12.2.bb: Fix compliation on ubuntu 11.04-alpha

[Khem Raj]

On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 6:18 PM, Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc.com> wrote:
> On 03/21/2011 03:40 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
>>
>> On 03/21/2011 11:23 AM, Khem Raj wrote:
>>>
>>> Ubuntu has moved eglibc to /usr/lib/${arch}-linux-gnu and
>>> /lib/${arch}-linux-gnu so we need that to be added to glibpth in
>>> Configure.
>>>
>>> Currently we set LD=ld in environment for recipes inheriting native
>>> class. This overrides the LD settings in the Makefiles of perl and
>>> it tries to link by calling ld which does not work since its using
>>> -l<x> on commandline and ubuntu linker seems not to look into
>>> the new location for these libraries. Its better to use gcc for linking
>>> here anyway
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Khem Raj<raj.khem at gmail.com>
>>> ---
>>> .../perl/files/Configure-multilib.patch | 10 +++++++---
>>> meta/recipes-devtools/perl/perl-native_5.12.2.bb | 4 +++-
>>> 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/files/Configure-multilib.patch
>>> b/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/files/Configure-multilib.patch
>>> index d3948a9..b561b6a 100644
>>> --- a/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/files/Configure-multilib.patch
>>> +++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/files/Configure-multilib.patch
>>> @@ -1,11 +1,15 @@
>>> ---- perl-5.8.7/Configure.orig 2006-01-30 10:50:04.000000000 +0000
>>> -+++ perl-5.8.7/Configure 2006-01-30 10:51:18.000000000 +0000
>>> -@@ -1240,7 +1240,7 @@
>>> +Index: perl-5.12.2/Configure
>>> +===================================================================
>>> +--- perl-5.12.2.orig/Configure
>>> ++++ perl-5.12.2/Configure
>>> +@@ -1316,8 +1316,9 @@ loclibpth="/usr/local/lib /opt/local/lib
>>> loclibpth="$loclibpth /opt/gnu/lib /usr/GNU/lib /opt/GNU/lib"
>>>
>>> : general looking path for locating libraries
>>> -glibpth="/lib /usr/lib $xlibpth"
>>> +glibpth="/lib /usr/lib /lib64 /usr/lib64 $xlibpth"
>>> glibpth="$glibpth /usr/ccs/lib /usr/ucblib /usr/local/lib"
>>> ++test -f /usr/lib/`uname -m`-linux-gnu/libc.so&&
>>> glibpth="/usr/lib/`uname -m`-linux-gnu $glibpth"
>>> test -f /usr/shlib/libc.so&& glibpth="/usr/shlib $glibpth"
>>> test -f /shlib/libc.so&& glibpth="/shlib $glibpth"
>>> + test -d /usr/lib64&& glibpth="$glibpth /lib64 /usr/lib64
>>> /usr/local/lib64"
>>> diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/perl-native_5.12.2.bb
>>> b/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/perl-native_5.12.2.bb
>>> index 9af7b06..6776aed 100644
>>> --- a/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/perl-native_5.12.2.bb
>>> +++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/perl-native_5.12.2.bb
>>> @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ SECTION = "libs"
>>> LICENSE = "Artistic|GPL"
>>> LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://Copying;md5=2b4c6ffbcfcbdee469f02565f253d81a \
>>> file://Artistic;md5=f921793d03cc6d63ec4b15e9be8fd3f8"
>>> -PR = "r7"
>>> +PR = "r8"
>>>
>>> LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://Copying;md5=2b4c6ffbcfcbdee469f02565f253d81a \
>>> file://Artistic;md5=f921793d03cc6d63ec4b15e9be8fd3f8"
>>> @@ -28,6 +28,8 @@ S = "${WORKDIR}/perl-${PV}"
>>>
>>> inherit native
>>>
>>> +export LD="${CC}"
>>
>> We have CCLD for when we want to use CC as our LD (and yes, this usually
>> just ends up as CC, but lets be clear please).
>>
>
> This change is not working for me on Ubuntu 11.04 {released}.
> The libraries are found in /lib/i386-linux-gnu and /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu
> At least on the machine where it fails, uname -m gives i686, so the test
>  >> ++test -f /usr/lib/`uname -m`-linux-gnu/libc.so&&
> glibpth="/usr/lib/`uname -m`-linux-gnu $glibpth"
> fails.
>
> I hard coded the i386-linux-gnu paths and was able to build perl-native on
> Ubuntu 11.04

I used uname since I thought that was way to make it common for both x86_64
and x86 but it seems they made life harder than that. I did not have
32bit installation to verify

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