[oe] [RFC] Disable packaged-staging for perl-native

Tom Rini tom_rini at mentor.com
Tue Jul 27 23:45:21 UTC 2010


I'd like to disable packaged-staging for perl-native.  The problem here 
comes from a number of things that happen.  Some of these can only 
happen in combination with packaged-staging but others I believe could 
happen today.  The problem itself is that if we have perl-native 
available from packaged-staging it can suddenly exist very early.  What 
this means in practical terms is that now we're trying to generate say 
pod2man.pl from pod2man.pl.in and @perl@ is expanded to something beyond 
the "#!" mechanic length limit and recipes start failing to build 
(fixable by changing pod2man.pl.in to use /usr/bin/env perl (and if it 
had a -w changing to Use warnings: or whatever the perl is)).

There may have been other rats nests I ran into but can't fully confirm 
weren't due to other crazy rats nests I made.  But we hit the above many 
times.

perl-native: Disable packaged-staging

Having perl-native come from packaged-staging can expose other issues.
Disable so we get the normal (potential) behavior here.

Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <tom_rini at mentor.com>

diff --git a/recipes/perl/perl-native_5.10.1.bb 
b/recipes/perl/perl-native_5.10.1.bb
index 0e0854b..98c2c3c 100644
--- a/recipes/perl/perl-native_5.10.1.bb
+++ b/recipes/perl/perl-native_5.10.1.bb
@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@ NATIVE_INSTALL_WORKS = "1"
  # Not tested enough
  DEFAULT_PREFERENCE = "-1"

+# Introduces issues when re-used too early.
+PSTAGING_DISABLED = "1"
+
  FILESDIR = "${@os.path.dirname(bb.data.getVar('FILE',d,1))}/perl-${PV}"

  SRC_URI = 
"http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/CPAN/src/perl-${PV}.tar.gz;name=perl-${PV} \
diff --git a/recipes/perl/perl-native_5.8.8.bb 
b/recipes/perl/perl-native_5.8.8.bb
index fe1bc84..b966eeb 100644
--- a/recipes/perl/perl-native_5.8.8.bb
+++ b/recipes/perl/perl-native_5.8.8.bb
@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ DEPENDS = "virtual/db-native gdbm-native"
  PR = "r20"
  NATIVE_INSTALL_WORKS = "1"

+# Introduces issues when re-used too early.
+PSTAGING_DISABLED = "1"
+
  FILESDIR = "${@os.path.dirname(bb.data.getVar('FILE',d,1))}/perl-${PV}"

  SRC_URI = "http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/CPAN/src/5.0/perl-${PV}.tar.gz \

-- 
Tom Rini
Mentor Graphics Corporation




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