<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 3:52 AM, 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"><br>
the earlier note from ross i had totally forgotten about ...<br>
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On Tue, 20 Dec 2016, Burton, Ross wrote:<br>
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</span><span class="">> FWIW I had a quick look at this. I'm certainly no perl guru and can<br>
> barely understand it, but it does *so much* wrong that if you really<br>
> need this then it would be easier to just rewrite the <a href="http://makefile.pl" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">makefile.pl</a><br>
> from scratch. Once you remove the hunting for the headers in the<br>
> wrong place, it then invokes an autoconf script... which needs to<br>
> be passed the right options.<br>
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> Do you really need this module? It's not been updated for many<br>
> years, so surely there's something better.<br>
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</span> and that's the question ... is there something better? is there not<br>
a single person who needs this feature in their OE/YP build? perhaps<br>
not. maybe i really do need to hire a contractor to take care of this.<br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>In my mind the question is deeper than that. The question is "is there not</div><div>a single person who needs this feature in perl?". The upstream is the</div><div>problem. It is just not ready to cross-compile.</div><div><br></div><div>--Tim </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">
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