[OE-core] [PATCH V2 6/6] groff: upgrade 1.22.3

Richard Purdie richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org
Thu Dec 25 08:44:31 UTC 2014


On Thu, 2014-12-25 at 10:19 +0800, Hongxu Jia wrote:
> Rebase groff-1.22.2-correct-man.local-install-path.patch to 1.22.3
> 
> Refer what debian did, we add perl to RRECOMMENDS_${PN}, here is the
> explanation in groff 1.22.3 README:
> ...
> Additionally, producing `PDF' output directly with the `gropdf' device needs
> a working installation of `perl'.  The same is true for some other
> preprocessors like `chem'.
> ...
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hongxu Jia <hongxu.jia at windriver.com>
> ---
>  ...off-1.22.2-correct-man.local-install-path.patch | 32 ---------------
>  .../groff-correct-man.local-install-path.patch     | 45 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>  .../groff/{groff_1.22.2.bb => groff_1.22.3.bb}     |  7 ++--
>  3 files changed, 49 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-)
>  delete mode 100644 meta/recipes-extended/groff/groff-1.22.2/groff-1.22.2-correct-man.local-install-path.patch
>  create mode 100644 meta/recipes-extended/groff/groff-1.22.3/groff-correct-man.local-install-path.patch
>  rename meta/recipes-extended/groff/{groff_1.22.2.bb => groff_1.22.3.bb} (89%)

Given the original error message, if you build this on a machine
with /bin/perl, does it not still give an error at rootfs time?

Do we need to correctly set the path to perl in the recipe?

Cheers,

Richard





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