From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.chez-thomas.org (mail.mlbassoc.com [65.100.170.105]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0030E01567 for ; Fri, 26 Jul 2013 08:49:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail.chez-thomas.org (Postfix, from userid 1998) id 52B6BF811FF; Fri, 26 Jul 2013 09:49:46 -0600 (MDT) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on hermes.chez-thomas.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=4.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 Received: from [192.168.1.114] (zeus [192.168.1.114]) by mail.chez-thomas.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA511F81205; Fri, 26 Jul 2013 09:49:42 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <51F29A98.4030006@mlbassoc.com> Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 09:49:44 -0600 From: Gary Thomas User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130623 Thunderbird/17.0.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Yocto Project Subject: It's a [PERL] lie... X-BeenThere: yocto@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion of all things Yocto Project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 15:49:49 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit After three weeks, I've finally figured out why my PERL based programs (Amanda in particular) don't run on my Poky/Yocto system. I have my own distribution, derived from Poky, with some minor tweaks. In particular, I have some reduced DISTRO_FEATURES(*). One of them that I had removed, 'largefile', was the root cause of my PERL problems. It turns out that PERL is the only package that cares about this DISTRO_FEATURE and it builds incorrectly if it's left out :-( Adding this feature back into my settings made PERL build properly and now Amanda runs as well. My point/query is that if this setting is only used by PERL *and* leaving it out breaks things anyway, shouldn't it just be removed and the PERL recipes changed to assume that it was set? * Note: I made these changes years ago, when I was new to OE/Poky and still quite naive, and I don't recall why I removed 'largefile'. -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Gary Thomas | Consulting for the MLB Associates | Embedded world ------------------------------------------------------------