Re: [RFC] Disable packaged-staging for perl-native

[Tom Rini <tom_rini@mentor.com>]

Roman I Khimov wrote:
> В сообщении от Среда 28 июля 2010 03:45:21 автор Tom Rini написал:
>> I'd like to disable packaged-staging for perl-native.  The problem here
>> comes from a number of things that happen.  Some of these can only
>> happen in combination with packaged-staging but others I believe could
>> happen today.  The problem itself is that if we have perl-native
>> available from packaged-staging it can suddenly exist very early.  What
>> this means in practical terms is that now we're trying to generate say
>> pod2man.pl from pod2man.pl.in and @perl@ is expanded to something beyond
>> the "#!" mechanic length limit and recipes start failing to build
>> (fixable by changing pod2man.pl.in to use /usr/bin/env perl (and if it
>> had a -w changing to Use warnings: or whatever the perl is)).
> 
> So the problem really is that we have perl in /very-very-long-path/perl? IMO 
> /usr/bin/env change would be better in that case. 

The most common case is that one, yes.  I'm open to suggestions on 
catching and fixing these problems ahead of time but the issue is we're 
talking about for example wget which has no dependency on perl-native.

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Tom Rini
Mentor Graphics Corporation