From: Junqian Gordon Xu <xjqian@gmail.com>
To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: Perl modules: Cannot compile due to wrong dependency in Makefile
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:20:11 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47D5C22B.4090308@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1205081794.8432.15.camel@localhost>
On 03/09/2008 11:56 AM, Thomas Reitmayr wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a problem building perl modules which have their own recipe and
> are built outside of the original perl tree, eg. libwww-perl. It looks
> like there is a wrong dependency in the Makefile of such a module. The
> Makefile is created from Makefile.PL and includes the following:
These are definitely overlooked host path pollution.
>
> [...]
> PERL_LIB = /usr/share/perl/5.8
> PERL_ARCHLIB = /usr/lib/perl/5.8
> [...]
> # Where is the Config information that we are using/depend on
> CONFIGDEP = $(PERL_ARCHLIB)$(DFSEP)Config.pm $(PERL_INC)$(DFSEP)config.h
> [...]
> $(FIRST_MAKEFILE) : Makefile.PL $(CONFIGDEP)
> $(NOECHO) $(ECHO) "Makefile out-of-date with respect to $?"
> [...]
>
> As there is no /usr/lib/perl/5.8 on my build host (a Gentoo system), the
> reported error in log.do_compile.ZZZ is
>
> make: *** No rule to make target `/usr/lib/perl/5.8/Config.pm', needed
> by `Makefile'. Stop.
>
> The only Config.pm I can find
> is /home/nslu2/slugos/tmp/staging/i686-linux/usr/lib/perl/5.8.8/Config.pm, but I am not sure if it would be correct to just set the PERL_LIB to its directory path. I traced back the origin of PERL_LIB and found it is coming from a %Config setting 'archlibexp'. Its contents is read from tmp/staging/i686-linux/usr/lib/perl/5.8.8/Config_heavy-target.pl.
>
> I am not sure whether the contents of the variable is wrong or its
> usage, and of course how to fix it.
> [My quick fix was to modify the MakeMaker (MM_Unix.pm) to not create
> this dependency.]
>
> Has anyone an idea what's wrong?
The common fix for hard coded path in configure or Makefile is to patch
those with the appropriate ${STAGINGDIR}.
Regards
Gordon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-10 22:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-09 16:56 Perl modules: Cannot compile due to wrong dependency in Makefile Thomas Reitmayr
2008-03-10 23:20 ` Junqian Gordon Xu [this message]
2008-08-06 5:41 ` Junqian Gordon Xu
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