[OE-core] PERL and FULLPERL from MakeMaker.pm

[Kamble, Nitin A]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tian, Kevin
> Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2011 12:24 AM
> To: poky at yoctoproject.org; openembedded-core at lists.openembedded.org
> Cc: Kamble, Nitin A
> Subject: PERL and FULLPERL from MakeMaker.pm
> 
> Hi, all,
> 
> I just found that several perl-based projects (e.g. sgmlspl and git)
> failed to find
> ExtUtils modules, when sstate cache is used for perl-native while
> original build
> directory generating sstate packages have been deleted.
> 
> We have a perl wrapper to make sure @INC correctly including current
> build
> sysroot, which however doesn't solve the problem seen here.
> 
> Those projects make use of MakeMaker.pm to generate their Makefiles on
> the
> fly, while MakeMaker.pm generates below lines:
> 
> PERL = /media/builds-0/demo-0309/tmp/sysroots/x86_64-
> linux/usr/bin/perl.real
> FULLPERL =
> /media/builds-0/demo-0309/tmp/sysroots/x86_64-linux/usr/bin/perl.real
> 
> I can work around the issues by manually changing Makefile when the
> error
> occurs.
> 
> I know little about perl internals, and thus would like to know whether
> it's a
> easy issue to tackle. I didn't find any explicit files containing a
> perl.real from
> perl-native sstate package, except the perl wrapper script. So it's
> interesting
> how MakeMaker.pm finds the perl.real binary.
> 
> I reported a bug at:
> http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/post_bug.cgi
> 
> Thanks,
> Kevin

Kevin,
  Looks like the build path for perl.real is used. I think it should be a path from the native sysroot. Thanks for opening the bug.
Thanks,
Nitin