[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] host-perl-autodie: new package

[Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>]

Hello,

On Sun,  3 Jun 2018 10:11:33 +0200, Fabrice Fontaine wrote:
> Replace functions with ones that succeed or die with lexical scope
> 
> https://metacpan.org/release/autodie
> 
> Signed-off-by: Fabrice Fontaine <fontaine.fabrice@gmail.com>
> ---
>  package/perl-autodie/perl-autodie.hash |  6 ++++++
>  package/perl-autodie/perl-autodie.mk   | 13 +++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 19 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 package/perl-autodie/perl-autodie.hash
>  create mode 100644 package/perl-autodie/perl-autodie.mk

This series doesn't fix the problem for me. Indeed, whois seems to be
using /usr/bin/perl explicitly, so it doesn't find the perl-autodie
built by Buildroot:

>>> host-perl-autodie 2.29 Extracting
>>> host-perl-autodie 2.29 Patching
>>> host-perl-autodie 2.29 Configuring
>>> host-perl-autodie 2.29 Building
>>> host-perl-autodie 2.29 Installing to host directory
>>> whois 5.3.0 Extracting
/home/buildroot/output/host/bin/xzcat /home/buildroot/buildroot/dl/whois/whois_5.3.0.tar.xz | /home/buildroot/output/host/bin/tar --strip-components=1 -C /home/buildroot/output/build/whois-5.3.0   -xf -
>>> whois 5.3.0 Patching
>>> whois 5.3.0 Configuring
>>> whois 5.3.0 Building
PATH="/home/buildroot/output/host/bin:/home/buildroot/output/host/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin" /usr/bin/make -j5 CC="/home/buildroot/output/host/bin/arm-linux-gcc" CFLAGS="-D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64  -Os " LIBS="" Makefile.depend whois mkpasswd -C /home/buildroot/output/build/whois-5.3.0
/home/buildroot/output/host/bin/arm-linux-gcc   -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64  -Os  -MM -MG *.c > Makefile.depend
make[2]: 'Makefile.depend' is up to date.
/usr/bin/perl make_version_h.pl debian/changelog > version.h
/usr/bin/perl make_ip_del.pl < ip_del_list > ip_del.h
/usr/bin/perl make_ip6_del.pl < ip6_del_list > ip6_del.h
/usr/bin/perl make_as_del.pl < as_del_list > as_del.h
/usr/bin/perl make_as32_del.pl < as32_del_list > as32_del.h
Can't locate autodie.pm in @INC (you may need to install the autodie module) (@INC contains: /home/buildroot/output/host/lib/perl /usr/local/lib64/perl5 /usr/local/share/perl5 /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib64/perl5 /usr/share/perl5) at make_version_h.pl line 5.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at make_version_h.pl line 5.
make[2]: *** [Makefile:82: version.h] Error 2
make[2]: *** Deleting file 'version.h'
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make[1]: *** [package/pkg-generic.mk:232: /home/buildroot/output/build/whois-5.3.0/.stamp_built] Error 2
make: *** [Makefile:16: _all] Error 2

The second issue that I have is I'm not sure we want to add host-perl
as a dependency of whois (and that's what your series is indirectly
doing). host-perl is a pretty heavy dependency. I see three
possibilities here:

 - Keep it as you do, with perl-autodie using the host-perl-package
   infrastructure, which means adding a host-perl dependency to the
   dependency chain of whois.

 - Implement perl-autodie like libxml-parser-perl, i.e explicitly avoid
   using host-perl-package to avoid the host-perl dependency.

 - Add a requirement on perl-autodie to be installed system-wide in
   support/dependencies/dependencies.sh, like we're already doing for a
   few other Perl packages.

Best regards,

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin (formerly Free Electrons)
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com