Re: [yocto] [PATCH] Update intltool to set perl shebang correctly for installed tools

[Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>]

On 2011-08-03 13:52, McClintock Matthew-B29882 wrote:
> (Sorry if this get sent twice...)
>
> On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Gary Thomas<gary@mlbassoc.com>  wrote:
>> On 2011-08-03 10:33, Matthew McClintock wrote:
>>>
>>> Several installed scripts set the perl shebang that is too long
>>> which can cause failures on certian older bash versions.
>>
>> How does the change below correspond to this comment?  It's not
>> clear [at least to me] how changing that environment variable
>> affects shebang constructs.  Can you give a more thorough explanation?
>
> The scripts intltool-{update,etc} installed in sysroot end up having
> *really* long shebangs without this change. On older distros this
> causes the intltool scripts to just fail usually during the configure
> task. intltools recipe itself will
> build and install fine. However, when a package that requires
> intltool's is being configured they will all fail withing invoking
> intltools.

This much was already clear from your explanation - the "what happens and
why it needs fixing" part.

What I don't see is the "why" - why does defining PERL vs PERL_virtclass-native
have this effect?

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