[oe] [PATCH 0/5] Relocatable perl-native and use it always

[Frans Meulenbroeks]

2011/1/29 Martin Jansa <martin.jansa at gmail.com>:
> On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 11:52:28AM -0700, 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.
>
> Looks good and as we're using 5.10 already then for whole series:
>
> Acked-by: Martin Jansa <Martin.Jansa at gmail.com>
>
> Can we also get rid of legacy staging from recipes/perl/perl_5.10.1.bb ?

Would be nice.
Then again we could also decide to keep 5.10.1 as is, and try to move
forward to 5.12.
poky already has that recipe.

Frans
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