From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from relay1.mentorg.com ([192.94.38.131]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Pivwn-00085w-6d for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 22:33:37 +0100 Received: from svr-orw-exc-10.mgc.mentorg.com ([147.34.98.58]) by relay1.mentorg.com with esmtp id 1Pivvy-0007Zw-59 from Tom_Rini@mentor.com for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 13:32:46 -0800 Received: from na2-mail.mgc.mentorg.com ([134.86.114.213]) by SVR-ORW-EXC-10.mgc.mentorg.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.4675); Fri, 28 Jan 2011 13:32:45 -0800 Received: from [172.30.80.64] ([172.30.80.64]) by na2-mail.mgc.mentorg.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Fri, 28 Jan 2011 14:32:44 -0700 Message-ID: <4D4335F5.5060107@mentor.com> Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 14:32:37 -0700 From: Tom Rini Organization: Mentor Graphics Corporation User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101208 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org References: <1296240753-10120-1-git-send-email-tom_rini@mentor.com> In-Reply-To: <1296240753-10120-1-git-send-email-tom_rini@mentor.com> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 28 Jan 2011 21:32:45.0165 (UTC) FILETIME=[E6CCE9D0:01CBBF32] Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] Relocatable perl-native and use it always X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 21:33:37 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 01/28/2011 11:52 AM, 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. > > Build tested on {minimal+qemuarm,angstrom-2008.1+beagleboard}+all perl > libs and run tested on minimal+qemuarm+native-sdk-image. > > [1]: http://www.mail-archive.com/openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org/msg08445.html Oh, and since this is kinda a big deal, I really hope some of the folks that only get a chance to do this on the weekend will chime in or ask I give their dist/machine/image combo or two a spin before pushing (which I'm happy to do). -- Tom Rini Mentor Graphics Corporation