[OE-core] [PATCH 37/58] gnu-config-native: add dependency on perl-native

[Richard Purdie]

On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 22:02 +0800, Cui, Dexuan wrote:
> > or we hardcode to /usr/bin/perl. Since the perl-native binary won't be
> > in the path for any of these, autodetecting and letting it hardcode is
> > probably fine. It has the advantage that if there are any binary
> > modules ever involved, they'll match the version of perl they were
> > built for regardless of whether perl-native is a dependency or not.
> > If someone adds a perl-native dependency to autoconf-native, it will
> > also still select the "correct" perl.
> > 
> > Whilst doing this we need to keep bug #968 in mind and ensure that if
> > perl-native is used, all of perl-native is in the sysroot. That bug is
> > where the perl binary was installed, the library was not and an error
> > occurred. If it is in its own directory which is only added to the
> > PATH for users with the correct dependency, we avoid this.
> > 
> > As for bug #941, the bottom line is that however autoconf-native
> > selects its perl version, the strings encoded in gnu-config should
> > really match those in the other autoconf-native scripts.
> I saw a commit that was once suspended was pushed into poky
> master yesterday:
> http://git.pokylinux.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=605141a93443df042634b2219a8628a9004be023
> Actually it does fix(or at least workaround) bug #941 and bug #968.
> 
> Looks there are much work to do if we install perl-native to its own sysroot.
> At present we can use the above commit as a workaround.

Its merged as a workaround but I still think we need to clean this up
properly and we need to continue working on it.

Cheers,

Richard