[oe] Question on writing perl lib .bb files

[J. L.]

On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 1:33 AM, J. L. <vwyodapink at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am trying to add a few more perl libs into my build that dont exist
> and I have seen some that have dependences and others that dont. So I
> wrote one for Net::Whois::ARIN and tried without what CPAN says is the
> dependencies and it built correctly with no errors I installed the
> .ipk and went to try the build of a program I wanted to try on my
> overo and it no longer complains about it missing that. But why do
> some perl lib .bb use depends and not even all the depends that cpan
> lists and some list none even though according to CPAN they need them?
> I will post the .bb I wrote as well, thanks for any info on the
> correct way to do this as not sure if what I did is enough to properly
> get the lib for perl built
>
> DESCRIPTION = "Net::Whois::ARIN         whois arin "
> SECTION = "libs"
> LICENSE = "Perl"
> PR = "r1"
>
> DEPENDS += "libtest-mockmodule-perl scalar-util-perl libtest-exception-perl \
>            test-harness-perl test-more-perl libsub-uplevel-perl \
>            libmodule-build-perl carp-perl universal-isa-perl \
>            universal-can-perl io-socket-inet-perl "
>
> SRC_URI = "http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/T/TC/TCAINE/Net-Whois-ARIN-${PV}.tar.gz"
>
> S = "${WORKDIR}/Net-Whois-ARIN-${PV}"
>
> inherit cpan
>
> BBCLASSEXTEND="native"
>
> SRC_URI[md5sum] = "a5aee39187c6272acd2a77e30847fdef"
> SRC_URI[sha256sum] =
> "d47a6720ff265674cbd918d866c73221be9916d81e1c30ccdb0d49e6b45110e8"
>

Sorry forgot the build output as well:

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NOTE: the following files were installed but not shipped in any package:
NOTE:   /home/vdubhack/overo-oe/tmp/work/armv7a-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/perl-5.8.8-r36/image/usr/share/man/man3/Net::Whois::ARIN.3pm
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NOTE:   /home/vdubhack/overo-oe/tmp/work/armv7a-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/perl-5.8.8-r36/image/usr/share/man/man3/Net::Whois::ARIN::Organization.3pm
NOTE:   /home/vdubhack/overo-oe/tmp/work/armv7a-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/perl-5.8.8-r36/image/usr/share/man/man3/Net::Whois::ARIN::Customer.3pm
NOTE:   /home/vdubhack/overo-oe/tmp/work/armv7a-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/perl-5.8.8-r36/image/usr/share/man/man3/Net::Whois::ARIN::Network.3pm
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NOTE: Not creating empty archive for libnet-whois-arin-perl-doc-0.11-r1.6
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