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From: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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Subject: Re: autom4te segfault in Dumper.so when configuring intltool
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On Thu, 2015-04-16 at 22:09 -0400, Khem Raj wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 5:37 PM, Andre McCurdy <armccurdy@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hiding OE sysroot perl when configuring intltool and using only host
> > perl does also prevent the segfault.
> >
> > I'm not sure what the correct fix is though. Perhaps have the
> > autoconf-native scripts run host perl via a wrapper which removes any
> > reference to OE sysroot perl from the PATH?
> 
> Not sure why Richard suggested that but may be his intention was to
> build automake-native early enough since perl takes a bit of time to
> build and it would serialize the build but we dont know unless we
> measure, may be there are enough native tools to build to keep
> processors spinning while its building perl-native
> in theory correct fix is to add dependency on perl native for autoconf
> native and do the necessary surgeries (if required to use perl-native)

autoconf-native is near enough one of the primary pieces of the
dependency chain. Having it depend on perl-native is a very very bad
idea, if its possible at all. It might be "correct" in principle but in
practise its not workable.

Cheers,

Richard