[OE-core] Should openssl(-native) build-depends on perl-native?

[Richard Purdie]

On Sat, 2015-10-03 at 14:51 +0200, Jens Rehsack wrote:
> I hit a build error never seen before:
> 
> | gcc  -I.. -I../.. -I../modes -I../asn1 -I../evp -I../../include  -fPIC -DOPENSSL_PIC -DOPENSSL_THREADS -D_REENTRANT -DDSO_DLFCN -DHAVE_DLFCN_H -DL_ENDIAN     -DTERMIO -isystem/home/sno/fsl-community-bsp/ornithologen-kann-man-mit-voegeln-eine-freude-machen/tmp/sysroots/x86_64-linux/usr/include -O2 -pipe -Wall -Wa,--noexecstack -DHAVE_CRYPTODEV -DUSE_CRYPTODEV_DIGESTS -DOPENSSL_IA32_SSE2 -DOPENSSL_BN_ASM_MONT -DOPENSSL_BN_ASM_MONT5 -DOPENSSL_BN_ASM_GF2m -DSHA1_ASM -DSHA256_ASM -DSHA512_ASM -DMD5_ASM -DAES_ASM -DVPAES_ASM -DBSAES_ASM -DWHIRLPOOL_ASM -DGHASH_ASM -DECP_NISTZ256_ASM -isystem/home/sno/fsl-community-bsp/ornithologen-kann-man-mit-voegeln-eine-freude-machen/tmp/sysroots/x86_64-linux/usr/include  -c -o sha512.o sha512.c
> | /home/sno/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.6.2/bin/perl asm/sha1-x86_64.pl elf > sha1-x86_64.s
> | Can't locate bigint.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /home/sno/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.6.2/lib/5.6.2/x86_64-linux /home/sno/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.6.2/lib/5.6.2 /home/sno/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.6.2/lib/site_perl/5.6.2/x86_64-linux /home/sno/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.6.2/lib/site_perl/5.6.2 /home/sno/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.6.2/lib/site_perl .) at asm/../../perlasm/x86_64-xlate.pl line 200.
> | BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at asm/../../perlasm/x86_64-xlate.pl line 200.
> | make[2]: *** [sha1-x86_64.s] Error 141
> | make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/sno/fsl-community-bsp/ornithologen-kann-man-mit-voegeln-eine-freude-machen/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/openssl-native/1.0.2d-r0/openssl-1.0.2d/crypto/sha'
> | make[1]: *** [subdirs] Error 1
> | make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/sno/fsl-community-bsp/ornithologen-kann-man-mit-voegeln-eine-freude-machen/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/openssl-native/1.0.2d-r0/openssl-1.0.2d/crypto'
> | make: *** [build_crypto] Error 1
> | ERROR: oe_runmake failed
> | WARNING: /home/sno/fsl-community-bsp/ornithologen-kann-man-mit-voegeln-eine-freude-machen/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/openssl-native/1.0.2d-r0/temp/run.do_compile.15132:1 exit 1 from
> |   exit 1
> | ERROR: Function failed: do_compile (log file is located at /home/sno/fsl-community-bsp/ornithologen-kann-man-mit-voegeln-eine-freude-machen/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/openssl-native/1.0.2d-r0/temp/log.do_compile.15132)
> ERROR: Task 1531 (virtual:native:/home/sno/fsl-community-bsp/sources/poky/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssl/openssl_1.0.2d.bb, do_compile) failed with exit code '1'
> 
> Seems I recently used the same session to run my own module tests for a perl module to upload.
> OTOH - it's easy to avoid such a problem by depending on perl-native for openssl(-native).

Whilst you could add this dependency, it would have quite a significant
impact on build time. We rely on there being a working perl on the
native system for autotools so there isn't really a good reason to do
this.

Cheers,

Richard