[OE-core] [PATCH 2/6] Fix perl for powerpc64 build

[McClintock Matthew-B29882]

On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 6:46 AM, Richard Purdie
<richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>> --- a/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/perl_5.12.3.bb
>> +++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/perl_5.12.3.bb
>> @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://Copying;md5=2b4c6ffbcfcbdee469f02565f253d81a \
>>  # We need gnugrep (for -I)
>>  DEPENDS = "virtual/db grep-native"
>>  DEPENDS += "gdbm zlib"
>> -PR = "r5"
>> +PR = "r6"
>>
>>  # 5.10.1 has Module::Build built-in
>>  PROVIDES += "libmodule-build-perl"
>> @@ -95,6 +95,8 @@ export LDDLFLAGS = "${LDFLAGS} -shared"
>>  # We're almost Debian, aren't we?
>>  CFLAGS += "-DDEBIAN"
>>
>> +export ARCH_powerpc64 = "powerpc64"
>> +
>
> I'm finding it really hard to believe this makes any difference. I just
> tried a powerpc64 build here and perl built fine. I can't find any
> evidence for any part of the perl build using an ARCH variable
> (TARGET_ARCH is used but that isn't ARCH).
>
> Can you give some further information about how/where this is used?

I'm trying to reproduce this again on 'edison' as well and it does not
appear to be occurring anymore! The problem before had to do with a
configuration script error:

config.sh-powerpc64-linux

This script was getting invoked as 'config.sh-powerpc-linux' on the
64bit build, then the file did not exist and the configure step failed
out. Not sure if this was somehow fixed in a different manner.

Please drop this patch for now. I'll bring it up again if I see issues.

-M