[oe] [PATCH 0/5] Relocatable perl-native and use it always
Tom Rini
tom_rini at mentor.com
Fri Jan 28 21:32:37 UTC 2011
On 01/28/2011 11:52 AM, Tom Rini wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> As I've talked about before[1] there's build reproducibility issues
> depending on when perl-native is built. After talking with Mark Hatle
> a little bit I started thinking about relocation in perl again and it
> turns out that starting in 5.10, upstream perl supports relocation.
>
> This in turn makes it less painful to make perl-native be what we use
> when we want perl runtime, nearly everywhere (since you can use pstaging
> to avoid it the time next time).
>
> This patch set drops perl 5.8.8 and bumps all of the perl stuffs PR,
> switches to relocatable perl-native, and then the big switch to using it
> early.
>
> Build tested on {minimal+qemuarm,angstrom-2008.1+beagleboard}+all perl
> libs and run tested on minimal+qemuarm+native-sdk-image.
>
> [1]: http://www.mail-archive.com/openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org/msg08445.html
Oh, and since this is kinda a big deal, I really hope some of the folks
that only get a chance to do this on the weekend will chime in or ask I
give their dist/machine/image combo or two a spin before pushing (which
I'm happy to do).
--
Tom Rini
Mentor Graphics Corporation
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