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

[Tom Rini]

On 01/29/2011 07:51 AM, Tom Rini wrote:
> On 01/29/2011 04:29 AM, Martin Jansa wrote:
>> 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>
>
> Thanks.
>
>> Can we also get rid of legacy staging from recipes/perl/perl_5.10.1.bb ?
>
> Huh? I killed legacy staging in both perls a long time ago (and then
> Koen fixed up my thinkos).

OK, after some quick IRC, -ENOCOFFEE.  It looks like it wouldn't be too 
hard to kill legacy staging based on poky (we just need to install on 
the target Config_heavy-${TARGET_SYS}.pl.  I'll tackle that separately.

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Tom Rini
Mentor Graphics Corporation