[OE-core] The native perl's path is not in PATH

[Robert Yang]

On 06/29/2012 07:32 PM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-06-29 at 17:36 +0800, Robert Yang wrote:
>> The native perl is installed to:
>>
>> ${STAGING_BINDIR_NATIVE}/perl-native/perl
>>
>> But this isn't in the PATH, so we can use the native perl
>> by the command "perl" or "#!/usr/bin/env perl".
>>
>> I wonder why we install the perl to ${STAGING_BINDIR_NATIVE}/perl-native,
>> but not to ${STAGING_BINDIR_NATIVE}.
>>
>> It would be good if we can add ${STAGING_BINDIR_NATIVE}/perl-native to the path
>> or install the native perl to ${STAGING_BINDIR_NATIVE}, I will send a patch
>> for it if you are ok with it.
>
> No, this is very deliberately not in PATH by default. Please see the
> mailing list archives and the original patches that implemented this to
> understand why.
>
> Such a patch will not be accepted.
>
> What problem are you trying to fix?
>

Thanks, the problem is that when "#!/very/long/path/to/perl" in a perl
script, there would be an error "Bad interpreter: No such file or directory",
when the length of "#!/very/long/path/" is longer than 170 (or smaller), the
script which has this problem is the dpkg-scanpackages (and other dpkg-*
scripts, but they don't run when generate the rootfs of deb backend)) we can
use "#!/usr/bin/env perl" to fix this problem if the native perl is in the
PATH, and we can't use the host's perl since the host perl's @INC doesn't
contain the native perl's module which is needed by dpkg-scanpackages.

I think that I can use "/path/to/native-perl/perl dpkg-scanpackages"
to fix this problem since we can't add the native perl to the PATH.

// Robert

> Cheers,
>
> Richard
>
>
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