Re: [PATCH 1/2] shared-mime-info, avahi, polkit: inherit perlnative

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

On Mon, 2011-08-08 at 19:12 -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
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> On 08/08/2011 04:24 PM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> > On Sun, 2011-08-07 at 23:14 -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
> >> Otherwise we end up with configure errors like below
> >> 
> >> | checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl | checking for perl >=
> >> 5.8.1... 5.12.4 | checking for XML::Parser... configure: error:
> >> XML::Parser perl module is required for intltool | + bbfatal
> >> 'oe_runconf failed' | + echo 'ERROR: oe_runconf failed' | ERROR:
> >> oe_runconf failed
> >> 
> >> Signed-off-by: Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>
> > 
> > We really need to tweak intltool's m4 file so we don't need to add
> > in this ton of dependencies unnecessarily...
> > 
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> intltool.m4 uses
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> AC_PATH_PROG(INTLTOOL_PERL,perl)
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> if test -z "$INTLTOOL_PERL"; then
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>    AC_MSG_ERROR([perl not found])
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> fi
> 
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> 
> its using AC_PATH_PROG to find perl which is quite right I think.
> We somehow have to make sure that the path to perl-native
> is added into environment which does not happen unless
> we inherit perlnative as of now. and perlnative class is
> 
> PATH_prepend = "${STAGING_BINDIR_NATIVE}/perl-native:"
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> DEPENDS += "perl -native"
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> 
> are you proposing that we hardcode path to perl-native in intltool
> macros and assume that perl-native is already built ? or something else

I was proposing we change 
AC_PATH_PROG(INTLTOOL_PERL,perl) 
to 
AC_PATH_PROG(INTLTOOL_PERL,nativeperl)

Cheers,

Richard