[oe] State of Perl in OpenEmbedded

[Marcin Juszkiewicz]

Hi

It is over 2 years since we got Perl 5.8.8 from Jamie Lenehan. We are 
able to cross-compile Perl, we can build CPAN modules but thats all.

I wanted to run irssi on sheevaplug (under Angstrom). But this IRC 
client is more usable when compiled with Perl support. It is not 
possible at all with OpenEmbedded. Why?

1. We do not stage libperl at all. Fix is simple but see next point.
2. Software checks for perl cflags/ldflags by calling Perl. This means 
   that on my system x86-64 libraries/headers are used nevermind for
   which target I try to build. Result is disaster.

Any ideas how to solve that? I gave up.

Regards, 
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