Re: perl-native fails on Ubuntu 11.04

[Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>]

On 05/15/2011 07:15 AM, Ulf Samuelsson wrote:
> 2011-05-15 14:17, Gary Thomas skrev:
>> On 05/14/2011 04:43 PM, Ulf Samuelsson wrote:
>>>
>>>> Skickat: lö 2011-05-14 16:32
>>>> Till: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org
>>>> Ämne: Re: [oe] perl-native fails on Ubuntu 11.04
>>>>
>>>> On 05/14/2011 01:39 AM, Ulf Samuelsson wrote:
>>>>> 2011-05-05 12:57, Gary Thomas skrev:
>>>>>> On 05/05/2011 03:50 AM, Søren Holm wrote:
>>>>>>> Please apply this patch to make perl-native build on Ubuntu 11.04
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> https://gist.github.com/raw/925006/4217f358fb00b5b7f1dfbd1ce5f4afa4f64b0bb0/0001-perl-native-multilib-patch-for-ubuntu-11.04.patch
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> This patch only works for x86_64 systems. A corrected version
>>>>>> replaces `uname -m` with * in
>>>>>> ++test -f /usr/lib/*-linux-gnu/libc.so&&
>>>>>> glibpth="/usr/lib/*-linux-gnu $glibpth"
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes , Just installed Ubuntu 11.04 on a machine and I tried that patch
>>>>> and failed.
>>>>> 'uname -m` returns i686 but the library is in i386-linux-gnu
>>>>> I symlinked i686-linux-gnu to i386-linux-gnu, and then the build completes.
>>>>>
>>>>> `uname -i` will return i386 so that is an alternative as well.
>>>> On my x86_64 ubuntu 10.04 box it returns unknown, so I think we'll have
>>>> to use the glob.
>>>>
>>>
>>> How about using:
>>> dirname `find /usr/lib/*-linux-gnu/libc.so`
>>
>> That's no different than just the glob
>>
>
> I may be mistaken, but I think that with the glob,
> glibpth will contain "/usr/lib/*-linux-gnu"
> with the proposed patch,
> glibpth will contain (on my machine) "/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu"
>
> Not a big difference, I admit, but I think the latter is a tad more efficient.

No, the glob will be expanded in the assignment (globs inside of "" strings
are expanded by the shell)

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