Re: [PATCH 37/58] gnu-config-native: add dependency on perl-native

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Fri, 2011-04-15 at 23:54 -0700, Saul Wold wrote:
> From: Dexuan Cui <dexuan.cui@intel.com>
> 
> Fixes [YOCTO #968]
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dexuan Cui <dexuan.cui@intel.com>
> ---
>  .../gnu-config/config-guess-uclibc.patch           |    2 ++
>  .../gnu-config/gnu-config_20080123.bb              |    6 ++++--
>  2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/gnu-config/gnu-config/config-guess-uclibc.patch b/meta/recipes-devtools/gnu-config/gnu-config/config-guess-uclibc.patch
> index f820cef..f862c83 100644
> --- a/meta/recipes-devtools/gnu-config/gnu-config/config-guess-uclibc.patch
> +++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/gnu-config/gnu-config/config-guess-uclibc.patch
> @@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
> +Upstream-Status: Pending
> +
>  Patch courtesy gentoo-portage/sys-devel/gnuconfig/files/automake-1.8.5-config-guess-uclibc.patch.
>  
>  updated to 20050516 by Marcin 'Hrw' Juszkiewicz (by hand)
> diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/gnu-config/gnu-config_20080123.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/gnu-config/gnu-config_20080123.bb
> index e0a8155..897984d 100644
> --- a/meta/recipes-devtools/gnu-config/gnu-config_20080123.bb
> +++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/gnu-config/gnu-config_20080123.bb
> @@ -3,12 +3,14 @@ DESCRIPTION = "Tool that installs the GNU config.guess / config.sub into a direc
>  SECTION = "devel"
>  LICENSE = "GPLv1+"
>  LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://config.guess;endline=39;md5=a089987af4a25cb0419d1c2fd6d495e3"
> -DEPENDS = ""
> +
> +DEPENDS_virtclass-native = "perl-native"
> +
>  INHIBIT_DEFAULT_DEPS = "1"
>  


I haven't taken this. Having looked at the shear number of horrible
perl-native issues, I'd like to take the same approach we took with the
toolchain staging and place perl into its own bin directory we add to
PATH when needed. I commented on at least one of the bugs in this
respect.

Cheers,

Richard