[Buildroot] [PATCH] perl: build with perlcross instead of qemu

[Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>]

On 11/09/12 10:18, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
>
> On Fri, 09 Nov 2012 10:15:06 +0100, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:
>
>>    Doesn't make sense.  perlcross has to be extracted over the perl source: it
>> replaces a few configuration scripts and creates a few more.  There is nothing
>> in there to install on the host or on the target.
>
> First of all, thanks a lot for doing this work.
>
> Do you have details on how perl-cross is maintained with regard to
> perl? I.e, is it kept reasonably updated with new perl versions, or is
> it a hack that works on a single perl version that will force us to
> stay with only this version of perl?

  There are about 12 versions on the download site, one per major perl.  I guess
it doesn't make much difference which perl patchlevel it is applied to (this one
is actually for perl-5.16.0 but it work fine on our perl-5.16.1).

  Regards,
  Arnout

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