[OE-core] [PATCH] perl: Allow perl to cross build and native build in a directory named "t"

Jason Wessel jason.wessel at windriver.com
Wed May 23 05:03:21 UTC 2012


If any directory in leading up to your tmp directory has the name "t"
perl will fail to build with a very cryptic error shown below:

pod/buildtoc: no pods at pod/buildtoc line 305.
make[1]: *** [pod/perltoc.pod] Error 255

This is a result of the perl file checking making an assumption
that it is only looking at files and directories with in the perl
source directory.  This assumption fails with the way bitbake
sets up perl to properly cross compile.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel at windriver.com>
---
 .../perl/perl-5.14.2/perl-build-in-t-dir.patch     |   35 ++++++++++++++++++++
 meta/recipes-devtools/perl/perl-native_5.14.2.bb   |    3 +-
 meta/recipes-devtools/perl/perl_5.14.2.bb          |    1 +
 3 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 meta/recipes-devtools/perl/perl-5.14.2/perl-build-in-t-dir.patch

diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/perl-5.14.2/perl-build-in-t-dir.patch b/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/perl-5.14.2/perl-build-in-t-dir.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cd36ec5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/perl-5.14.2/perl-build-in-t-dir.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+Upstream-Status:Pending
+
+Perl cannot cross build in a path containing a directory that
+has the name of "t".
+
+You get an error like:
+
+
+Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel at windriver.com>
+---
+ pod/buildtoc |    4 +++-
+ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+--- a/pod/buildtoc
++++ b/pod/buildtoc
+@@ -274,8 +274,10 @@ if ($Build{toc}) {
+   find \&getpods => abs_from_top('lib/');
+ 
+   sub getpods {
++    my $Top = $FindBin::Bin;
+     if (/\.p(od|m)$/) {
+       my $file = $File::Find::name;
++      $file =~ s!^$Top!!;
+       return if $file =~ qr!/lib/Pod/Functions.pm\z!; # Used only by pod itself
+       return if $file =~ m!(?:^|/)t/!;
+       return if $file =~ m!lib/Attribute/Handlers/demo/!;
+@@ -283,7 +285,7 @@ if ($Build{toc}) {
+       return if $file =~ m!lib/Math/BigInt/t/!;
+       return if $file =~ m!/Devel/PPPort/[Hh]arness|lib/Devel/Harness!i;
+       return if $file =~ m!XS/(?:APItest|Typemap)!;
+-      my $pod = $file;
++      my $pod = $file = $File::Find::name;
+       return if $pod =~ s/pm$/pod/ && -e $pod;
+       unless (open my $f, '<', $_) {
+ 	warn "$0: bogus <$file>: $!";
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/perl-native_5.14.2.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/perl-native_5.14.2.bb
index c904c37..429a029 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/perl-native_5.14.2.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/perl-native_5.14.2.bb
@@ -14,7 +14,8 @@ SRC_URI = "http://www.cpan.org/src/5.0/perl-${PV}.tar.gz \
            file://perl-configpm-switch.patch \
            file://native-nopacklist.patch \
            file://native-perlinc.patch \
-           file://MM_Unix.pm.patch"
+           file://MM_Unix.pm.patch \
+           file://perl-build-in-t-dir.patch"
 
 SRC_URI[md5sum] = "3306fbaf976dcebdcd49b2ac0be00eb9"
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "6488359573bd7d41761bf935f66f827dc220fb3df961ef9b775d51fbd66548d3"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/perl_5.14.2.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/perl_5.14.2.bb
index 809fc72..2149b30 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/perl_5.14.2.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/perl_5.14.2.bb
@@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ SRC_URI = "http://www.cpan.org/src/5.0/perl-${PV}.tar.gz \
         file://perl-enable-gdbm.patch \
         file://cross-generate_uudmap.patch \
 	file://fix_bad_rpath.patch \
+	file://perl-build-in-t-dir.patch \
 	\
         file://config.sh \
         file://config.sh-32 \
-- 
1.6.6.2





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