[oe] perl 5.8.8 is ready

[Junqian Gordon Xu]

Jamie Lenehan wrote:
> On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 12:14:40AM -0500, Junqian Gordon Xu wrote:
>   
> This turns out to be an error on my part in perl 5.8.8 - I didn't
> tell bitbake that perl 5.8.8 was providing all the perl modules. So
> when something needed perl-modules (because of a DEPEND or RDEPEND)
> it found that perl 5.8.8 provided them while 5.8.8 didn't.
>
> If you had perl 5.8.7 already compiled and lying around you didn't
> notice this issue. Since I've been building and testing changes for
> both version I had 5.8.7 and 5.8.8 always compiled.
>
> Anyway, I just checked in a fix for this so it should be ok now.
>
>   
I can confirm with the latest mtn pull, perl-5.8.8 builds fine for me 
here except for some warning signs:

NOTE: package perl-5.8.8: started
NOTE: package perl-5.8.8-r10: task do_package: started
NOTE: perl-lib contains dangling symlink to /usr/lib/perl/5.8.8
NOTE: perl-lib contains dangling symlink to /usr/share/perl/5.8.8
NOTE: Couldn't find shared library provider for libgcc_s.so.1
NOTE: Couldn't find shared library provider for libgcc_s.so.1

>> Besides, I noticed another issue:
>> I had linux-libc-headers-2.6.15.99 compiled (I think it's determined 
>> Machine and Distro) . But perl-5.8.8 wants linux-libc-headers-2.6.20. 
>> Will that cause problem?
>>     
>
> Perl shouldn't care about linux-libc-headers, I use 2.6.15.99 here at
> the moment.
However, this issue is still outstanding. I'm trying to understand where 
the 2.6.20 dependency is coming from. Is this a bitbake issue?

bitbake perl:

OE Build Configuration:
BB_VERSION     = "1.8.3"
OE_REVISION    = "3ea77972dcf422ed70f1a083c412f43ab519f474"
TARGET_ARCH    = "arm"
TARGET_OS      = "linux-gnueabi"
MACHINE        = "tosa"
DISTRO         = "angstrom"
DISTRO_VERSION = "test-20070502"
TARGET_FPU     = "soft"

NOTE: Resolving missing task queue dependencies
NOTE: preferred version 2.5 of glibc not available (for item 
virtual/arm-angstrom-linux-gnueabi-libc-for-gcc)
NOTE: Preparing Runqueue
NOTE: Executing runqueue
NOTE: Running task 115 of 294 (ID: 131, 
/home/OE/org.openembedded.dev/packages/linux-libc-headers/linux-libc-headers_2.6.20.bb, 
do_fetch)
NOTE: package linux-libc-headers-2.6.20: started