[OE-core] $50 bounty for an OE recipe for libfilesys-smbclient-perl. seriously.

[Tim Orling]

On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 3:52 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca>
wrote:

>
>   the earlier note from ross i had totally forgotten about ...
>
> On Tue, 20 Dec 2016, Burton, Ross wrote:
>
> > FWIW I had a quick look at this.  I'm certainly no perl guru and can
> > barely understand it, but it does *so much* wrong that if you really
> > need this then it would be easier to just rewrite the makefile.pl
> > from scratch.  Once you remove the hunting for the headers in the
> > wrong place, it then invokes an autoconf script...  which needs to
> > be passed the right options.
> >
> > Do you really need this module?  It's not been updated for many
> > years, so surely there's something better.
>
>   and that's the question ... is there something better? is there not
> a single person who needs this feature in their OE/YP build? perhaps
> not. maybe i really do need to hire a contractor to take care of this.
>
>
In my mind the question is deeper than that. The question is "is there not
a single person who needs this feature in perl?". The upstream is the
problem. It is just not ready to cross-compile.

--Tim

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