[oe] perl 5.8.8 is ready

[Stelios Koroneos]

> perl-native-5.8.8 builds fine. But when I run bitbake perl-5.8.8,
> it alway try to build perl-native-5.8.7 and perl-5.8.7 first. Am I 
> missing something?
> 
> Gordon

You need to comment DEFAULT_PREFERENCE = "-1" so that it builds by default 

Stelios S. Koroneos

Digital OPSiS - Embedded Inteligence
http://www.digital-opsis.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: openembedded-devel-bounces at openembedded.org 
> [mailto:openembedded-devel-bounces at openembedded.org]On Behalf Of 
> Junqian Gordon Xu
> Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2007 1:52 PM
> To: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions
> Subject: Re: [oe] perl 5.8.8 is ready
> 
> 
> Jamie Lenehan wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I think I've got perl 5.8.8 to the stage where it is ready for use.
> > As this is a pretty big and complex system and I've made some rather
> > large changes to the way the build happens I'd like to get some
> > reports from other people that it works for them before removing the
> > DEFAULT_PREFERENCE = "-1".
> >
> > You need to build perl-native 5.8.8 and then perl 5.8.8. (You always
> > have to build the matching -native version of perl first.)
> >
> > So far I've tested sh4/glibc (build & run), i486/glibc (build only)
> > and sh4/uclibc (build only) using gcc 3.4.4 for sh4 and gcc 4.1.2 for
> > i486.
> >
> > The main visible changes are:
> >
> >  - Per-arch configurations and now gone, it should build for any
> >    target now without change.
> >
> >  - Installation paths have all been change to be match the debian
> >    style (which also happens to be FHS compliant).
> >
> >  - All configurations match (including native) and all configurations
> >    include threading and shared library support.
> >
> > The build should also be a lot more reliable and it should resolve
> > nearly all of the perl related bugzilla entries (yes, even the
> > /bin/sh is dash one ;)
> >
> > (Note that if you have any cpan modules they all need to rebuilt as
> > well when changing to 5.8.8 in order to get installed into the new
> > locations.)
> >
> >   
> Machine=Tosa
> Distro=Angstrom
> 
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