[OE-core] still fighting to get an OE recipe for "libfilesys-smbclient-perl"

[Mike Looijmans]

On 19-01-17 21:58, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
>   following up on the whining i did a while back to finish off a few
> perl recipes for OE, i have just a few left to resolve, and this is
> one of them. i managed to get several dozen perl recipes to work
> simply by throwing together recipes based on very little understanding
> of perl cpan mechanics and just mindlessly cribbing boilerplate from
> other recipes. if it worked, yee ha, move on.
>
>   here's my current recipe for this module (again, slapped together
> without really understanding what's going on under the hood):
>
> ///// start /////
>
> DESCRIPTION = "Filesys::SmbClient"
>
> SECTION = "libs"
> LICENSE = "Artisticv1 | GPLv1+"
> PR = "r0"
>
> MAINTAINER=	"rday"
> HOMEPAGE=	"https://metacpan.org/pod/Filesys::SmbClient"
>
> LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://${COMMON_LICENSE_DIR}/Artistic-1.0;md5=cda03bbdc3c1951996392b872397b798 \
> file://${COMMON_LICENSE_DIR}/GPL-1.0;md5=e9e36a9de734199567a4d769498f743d"
>
> DEPENDS += "samba"
>
> SRC_URI = "https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/A/AL/ALIAN/Filesys-SmbClient-3.2.tar.gz"
>
> SRC_URI[md5sum] = "8a4205fe748aac7f43fb2a0e8ef502b2"
> SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "a9f2f3d4675de76f9dcae2be40bda93495cd5fafb1bb6326d71833cea451bc6e"
>
> S = "${WORKDIR}/Filesys-SmbClient-${PV}"
>
> inherit cpan
>
> EXTRA_CPANFLAGS = "INC='-I${STAGING_INCDIR}/samba-4.0' LIBS='-L${STAGING_LIBDIR}'"
>
> BBCLASSEXTEND = "native"
>
> ///// end /////
>
> and the error i get when i try to build makes it *clear* that the
> configuration is failing to set up properly for cross-compiling for my
> powerpc target:
>
> $ bitbake libfilesys-smbclient-perl
> ... snip ...
> | Where can I find libsmbclient.h ? []
> *************************************************************
> | ** WHAT !!!!
> | ** I Can't find /libsmbclient.h : No such file or directory.
> | *************************************************************
> ... snip ...
> | Where can I find libsmbclient.so ? []
> *************************************************************
> | ** WHAT !!!!
> | ** I Can't find libsmbclient.so : No such file or directory.
> ... snip ...
> | checking for C compiler default output... a.out
> | checking whether the C compiler works... configure: error: cannot
> run C compiled programs.
> | If you meant to cross compile, use `--host'.
> | See `config.log' for more details.
>
>
>   and sure enough, the config.log for this build contains:
>
> Target: powerpc-poky-linux
> Configured with:
> ../../../../../../work-shared/gcc-6.3.0-r0/gcc-6.3.0/configure
> --build=x86_64-linux --host=x86_64-linux --target=powerpc-poky-linux
> ...

Quick observation: I think host and target are wrong. The "host" is where the 
software will run. The line above builds something that runs on x86_64 and 
that compiles for a powerpc target (target only makes sense if you're 
compiling a compiler). You probably wanted --host=powerpc-poky-linux and no 
"--target" at all.


>
>   beyond this, i'm not sure how to use an OE patch to adjust this
> source the right way, given that dozens and dozens of other modules
> cross-compiled just fine.
>
>   thoughts? i am in now way a perl expert so i really have no idea
> where to go from here.
>
> rday
>



Kind regards,

Mike Looijmans
System Expert

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