<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 19 January 2017 at 20:58, Robert P. J. Day <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rpjday@crashcourse.ca" target="_blank">rpjday@crashcourse.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id=":3f9" class="a3s aXjCH m159b886ddd73285c"> beyond this, i'm not sure how to use an OE patch to adjust this<br>
source the right way, given that dozens and dozens of other modules<br>
cross-compiled just fine.<br>
<br>
thoughts? i am in now way a perl expert so i really have no idea<br>
where to go from here<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Is this the module you asked about earlier that I had a quick look at? I'd say that basically it can't be cross-compiled easily - or with moderate effort - because of various pieces of crazy in the way it builds.</div><div><br></div><div>My recommendation is to either find or become a Perl build system expert and entirely rewrite the build to use something modern and sane, instead of something archaic, hand-coded and crazy.</div><div><br></div><div>Ross </div></div></div></div>