State of Perl in OpenEmbedded

State of Perl in OpenEmbedded

[Marcin Juszkiewicz]

Hi

It is over 2 years since we got Perl 5.8.8 from Jamie Lenehan. We are 
able to cross-compile Perl, we can build CPAN modules but thats all.

I wanted to run irssi on sheevaplug (under Angstrom). But this IRC 
client is more usable when compiled with Perl support. It is not 
possible at all with OpenEmbedded. Why?

1. We do not stage libperl at all. Fix is simple but see next point.
2. Software checks for perl cflags/ldflags by calling Perl. This means 
   that on my system x86-64 libraries/headers are used nevermind for
   which target I try to build. Result is disaster.

Any ideas how to solve that? I gave up.

Regards, 
-- 
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Re: State of Perl in OpenEmbedded

[Koen Kooi]

On 10-08-09 16:45, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> It is over 2 years since we got Perl 5.8.8 from Jamie Lenehan. We are
> able to cross-compile Perl, we can build CPAN modules but thats all.
>
> I wanted to run irssi on sheevaplug (under Angstrom). But this IRC
> client is more usable when compiled with Perl support. It is not
> possible at all with OpenEmbedded. Why?
>
> 1. We do not stage libperl at all. Fix is simple but see next point.
> 2. Software checks for perl cflags/ldflags by calling Perl. This means
>     that on my system x86-64 libraries/headers are used nevermind for
>     which target I try to build. Result is disaster.
>
> Any ideas how to solve that? I gave up.

One could try to teach perl-native to support sysroot.....

Re: State of Perl in OpenEmbedded

[Graeme Gregory]

Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote:
> Hi
>
> It is over 2 years since we got Perl 5.8.8 from Jamie Lenehan. We are 
> able to cross-compile Perl, we can build CPAN modules but thats all.
>
> I wanted to run irssi on sheevaplug (under Angstrom). But this IRC 
> client is more usable when compiled with Perl support. It is not 
> possible at all with OpenEmbedded. Why?
>
> 1. We do not stage libperl at all. Fix is simple but see next point.
> 2. Software checks for perl cflags/ldflags by calling Perl. This means 
>    that on my system x86-64 libraries/headers are used nevermind for
>    which target I try to build. Result is disaster.
>
> Any ideas how to solve that? I gave up.
>
> Regards, 
>   
Doesnt emacs have the same problem and ends up using qemu to do the tests?

Graeme