[OE-core] trying to build rpm with perl bindings

[Robert P. J. Day]

  for my qemuppc target, i wanted to add perl bindings to the target
"rpm" command, so i checked the "rpm_5.4.16.bb" recipe file to find:

  # Perl modules are not built, but they could be enabled fairly easily
  # the perl module creation and installation would need to be patched.
  # (currently has host perl contamination issues)
  WITH_PERL = "--with-perl --without-perlembed --without-perl-urpm"
  WITHOUT_PERL = "--without-perl --without-perl-urpm"
  PACKAGECONFIG[perl] = "${WITH_PERL},${WITHOUT_PERL},perl,"

um ... ok, no idea what the issue is here but what the heck, let's
just try it and see what happens, so added:

  PACKAGECONFIG_append_pn-rpm = " perl"

to "local.conf", ran "bitbake rpm" and eventually got:

| Making all in perl
| make[2]: Entering directory
'/home/rpjday/oe/builds/msm_qemuppc/tmp/work/ppc7400-poky-linux/rpm/5.4.16-r0/build/perl'
| /usr/bin/perl Makefile.PL CC="powerpc-poky-linux-gcc  -m32
-mhard-float -mcpu=7400 -mno-spe
--sysroot=/home/rpjday/oe/builds/msm_qemuppc/tmp/sysroots/qemuppc"
MAKEFILE=Makefile.perl
| Bareword found where operator expected at Makefile.PL line 71, near
"--sysroot"
| 	(Missing operator before sysroot?)
| Can't modify constant item in postdecrement (--) at Makefile.PL line
71, near "spe --"
| syntax error at Makefile.PL line 71, near "--sysroot"
... snip ...

 ????. so i open build/perl/Makefile.PL and, sure enough, down at line
71:

  WriteMakefile(
        'NAME'  => 'RPM',
        'OBJECT'        => join(' ', @objects),
        'VERSION' => '5.4.16',
        'MAKEFILE'=> 'Makefile.perl',
        'CC'      => powerpc-poky-linux-gcc  -m32 -mhard-float -mcpu=7400 -mno-spe
  --sysroot=/home/rpjday/oe/builds/msm_qemuppc/tmp/sysroots/qemuppc,
        ... snip ...

doesn't that 'CC' line also need quotes around the value being
assigned? that seems to be a fairly blatant error, no? or am i
misreading something?

rday

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