[oe] State of Perl in OpenEmbedded
Koen Kooi
k.kooi at student.utwente.nl
Mon Aug 10 15:16:02 UTC 2009
On 10-08-09 16:45, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote:
>
> 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.
One could try to teach perl-native to support sysroot.....
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