From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2016 23:36:52 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] perl: update config.{sub, guess} using autotools hook In-Reply-To: <1477430469-17537-1-git-send-email-nunes.erico@gmail.com> References: <1477430469-17537-1-git-send-email-nunes.erico@gmail.com> Message-ID: <20161025233652.46faa126@free-electrons.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hello, On Tue, 25 Oct 2016 23:21:09 +0200, Erico Nunes wrote: > perl may fail to build on newer host architectures such as aarch64 due > to its inability to guess the host architecture to build 'miniperl', > which is built during the process. An error message looks like this: > > Configuring build-time miniperl for unknown > ERROR: No $target defined (?!) > ERROR: configure --mode=buildmini failed > > This happens because the config.sub and config.guess files from perl are > not modified and may become outdated. > These files are normally updated automatically by a Buildroot hook for > autotools packages, to avoid problems like these. > Although perl uses the config.sub and config.guess files, it is not a > strict autotools package, so it is not defined as an "autotools-package" > in Buildroot and so it doesn't inherit the hook. > This commit makes perl borrow the hook from the autotools infrastructure > so that it can build on newer build architectures. > This has been tested by building it on an aarch64 host machine. > > Signed-off-by: Erico Nunes Please use the get-developers script when sending patches, so that the appropriate developers are CC'ed. In this case, Fran?ois should have been CC'ed. Fran?ois, can you have a look at Erico's patch? See https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/686713/. Thanks, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering http://free-electrons.com