[oe] Question on writing perl lib .bb files

Sun Oct 10 08:40:54 UTC 2010

On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 1:36 AM, J. L. <vwyodapink at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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:
>
> NOTE: Running task 904 of 922 (ID: 11,
> /home/vdubhack/overo-oe/user.collection/recipes/perl/libnet-whois-arin-perl_0.11.bb,
> do_setscene)
> NOTE: Running task 905 of 922 (ID: 9,
> /home/vdubhack/overo-oe/user.collection/recipes/perl/libnet-whois-arin-perl_0.11.bb,
> do_fetch)
> NOTE: Running task 906 of 922 (ID: 0,
> /home/vdubhack/overo-oe/user.collection/recipes/perl/libnet-whois-arin-perl_0.11.bb,
> do_unpack)
> NOTE: Unpacking sources/Net-Whois-ARIN-0.11.tar.gz to
> tmp/work/armv7a-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/libnet-whois-arin-perl-0.11-r1/
> NOTE: Running task 907 of 922 (ID: 1,
> /home/vdubhack/overo-oe/user.collection/recipes/perl/libnet-whois-arin-perl_0.11.bb,
> do_patch)
> NOTE: Running task 908 of 922 (ID: 12,
> /home/vdubhack/overo-oe/user.collection/recipes/perl/libnet-whois-arin-perl_0.11.bb,
> do_configure)
> NOTE: Running task 909 of 922 (ID: 13,
> /home/vdubhack/overo-oe/user.collection/recipes/perl/libnet-whois-arin-perl_0.11.bb,
> do_qa_configure)
> NOTE: Running task 910 of 922 (ID: 14,
> /home/vdubhack/overo-oe/user.collection/recipes/perl/libnet-whois-arin-perl_0.11.bb,
> do_compile)
> NOTE: Running task 911 of 922 (ID: 2,
> /home/vdubhack/overo-oe/user.collection/recipes/perl/libnet-whois-arin-perl_0.11.bb,
> do_install)
> NOTE: Running task 912 of 922 (ID: 15,
> /home/vdubhack/overo-oe/user.collection/recipes/perl/libnet-whois-arin-perl_0.11.bb,
> do_package)
> 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
> NOTE:   /home/vdubhack/overo-oe/tmp/work/armv7a-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/perl-5.8.8-r36/image/usr/share/man/man3/Net::Whois::ARIN::Contact.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::AS.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::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
> NOTE: Running task 913 of 922 (ID: 3,
> /home/vdubhack/overo-oe/user.collection/recipes/perl/libnet-whois-arin-perl_0.11.bb,
> do_populate_sysroot)
> NOTE: Running task 914 of 922 (ID: 18,
> /home/vdubhack/overo-oe/user.collection/recipes/perl/libnet-whois-arin-perl_0.11.bb,
> do_package_write_ipk)
> Packaged contents of libnet-whois-arin-perl-dbg into
> /home/vdubhack/overo-oe/tmp/deploy/glibc/ipk/armv7a/libnet-whois-arin-perl-dbg_0.11-r1.6_armv7a.ipk
> Packaged contents of libnet-whois-arin-perl into
> /home/vdubhack/overo-oe/tmp/deploy/glibc/ipk/armv7a/libnet-whois-arin-perl_0.11-r1.6_armv7a.ipk
> NOTE: Not creating empty archive for libnet-whois-arin-perl-doc-0.11-r1.6
> Packaged contents of libnet-whois-arin-perl-dev into
> /home/vdubhack/overo-oe/tmp/deploy/glibc/ipk/armv7a/libnet-whois-arin-perl-dev_0.11-r1.6_armv7a.ipk
> NOTE: Not creating empty archive for libnet-whois-arin-perl-static-0.11-r1.6
> NOTE: Not creating empty archive for libnet-whois-arin-perl-locale-0.11-r1.6
> NOTE: Running task 915 of 922 (ID: 5,
> /home/vdubhack/overo-oe/user.collection/recipes/perl/libnet-whois-arin-perl_0.11.bb,
> do_package_write)
> NOTE: Running task 916 of 922 (ID: 4,
> /home/vdubhack/overo-oe/user.collection/recipes/perl/libnet-whois-arin-perl_0.11.bb,
> do_qa_staging)
> NOTE: Running task 917 of 922 (ID: 6,
> /home/vdubhack/overo-oe/user.collection/recipes/perl/libnet-whois-arin-perl_0.11.bb,
> do_package_stage)
> NOTE: Running task 918 of 922 (ID: 16,
> /home/vdubhack/overo-oe/user.collection/recipes/perl/libnet-whois-arin-perl_0.11.bb,
> do_distribute_sources)
> NOTE: Running task 919 of 922 (ID: 7,
> /home/vdubhack/overo-oe/user.collection/recipes/perl/libnet-whois-arin-perl_0.11.bb,
> do_package_stage_all)
> NOTE: Running task 920 of 922 (ID: 10,
> /home/vdubhack/overo-oe/user.collection/recipes/perl/libnet-whois-arin-perl_0.11.bb,
> do_build)
> NOTE: Running task 921 of 922 (ID: 17,
> /home/vdubhack/overo-oe/user.collection/recipes/perl/libnet-whois-arin-perl_0.11.bb,
> do_rm_work)
> NOTE: Running task 922 of 922 (ID: 8,
> /home/vdubhack/overo-oe/user.collection/recipes/perl/libnet-whois-arin-perl_0.11.bb,
> do_rm_work_all)
> NOTE: Tasks Summary: Attempted 922 tasks of which 903 didn't need to
> be rerun and 0 failed.
>

Sorry guess I need to go to sleep here is the recipe I built without
the depends, the first one is the ones it says it needs in CPAN, here
the one that I built and installed::

DESCRIPTION = "Net::Whois::ARIN   	whois arin "
SECTION = "libs"
LICENSE = "Perl"
PR = "r1"

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"