Re: perl 5.8.8 is ready

[Junqian Gordon Xu <xjqian@gmail.com>]

Jamie Lenehan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I think I've got perl 5.8.8 to the stage where it is ready for use.
> As this is a pretty big and complex system and I've made some rather
> large changes to the way the build happens I'd like to get some
> reports from other people that it works for them before removing the
> DEFAULT_PREFERENCE = "-1".
>
> You need to build perl-native 5.8.8 and then perl 5.8.8. (You always
> have to build the matching -native version of perl first.)
>
> So far I've tested sh4/glibc (build & run), i486/glibc (build only)
> and sh4/uclibc (build only) using gcc 3.4.4 for sh4 and gcc 4.1.2 for
> i486.
>
> The main visible changes are:
>
>  - Per-arch configurations and now gone, it should build for any
>    target now without change.
>
>  - Installation paths have all been change to be match the debian
>    style (which also happens to be FHS compliant).
>
>  - All configurations match (including native) and all configurations
>    include threading and shared library support.
>
> The build should also be a lot more reliable and it should resolve
> nearly all of the perl related bugzilla entries (yes, even the
> /bin/sh is dash one ;)
>
> (Note that if you have any cpan modules they all need to rebuilt as
> well when changing to 5.8.8 in order to get installed into the new
> locations.)
>
>   
Machine=Tosa
Distro=Angstrom

perl-native-5.8.8 builds fine. But when I run bitbake perl-5.8.8,
it alway try to build perl-native-5.8.7 and perl-5.8.7 first. Am I 
missing something?

Gordon