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From: Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>
To: McClintock Matthew-B29882 <B29882@freescale.com>
Cc: "yocto@yoctoproject.org" <yocto@yoctoproject.org>,
	"openembedded-core@openembedded.org"
	<openembedded-core@openembedded.org>
Subject: Re: [yocto] [PATCH] Update intltool to set perl shebang correctly for installed tools
Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2011 14:01:47 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E39A92B.5040207@mlbassoc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEsOVNf5eZ6PLkqw_Ya8XEEzr1uQprGXOeqc4aS7BCcja7Bsmw@mail.gmail.com>

On 2011-08-03 13:52, McClintock Matthew-B29882 wrote:
> (Sorry if this get sent twice...)
>
> On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Gary Thomas<gary@mlbassoc.com>  wrote:
>> On 2011-08-03 10:33, Matthew McClintock wrote:
>>>
>>> Several installed scripts set the perl shebang that is too long
>>> which can cause failures on certian older bash versions.
>>
>> How does the change below correspond to this comment?  It's not
>> clear [at least to me] how changing that environment variable
>> affects shebang constructs.  Can you give a more thorough explanation?
>
> The scripts intltool-{update,etc} installed in sysroot end up having
> *really* long shebangs without this change. On older distros this
> causes the intltool scripts to just fail usually during the configure
> task. intltools recipe itself will
> build and install fine. However, when a package that requires
> intltool's is being configured they will all fail withing invoking
> intltools.

This much was already clear from your explanation - the "what happens and
why it needs fixing" part.

What I don't see is the "why" - why does defining PERL vs PERL_virtclass-native
have this effect?

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-08-03 20:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-03 16:33 [PATCH] Update intltool to set perl shebang correctly for installed tools Matthew McClintock
2011-08-03 16:44 ` [yocto] " Gary Thomas
     [not found]   ` <CAEsOVNf5eZ6PLkqw_Ya8XEEzr1uQprGXOeqc4aS7BCcja7Bsmw@mail.gmail.com>
2011-08-03 20:01     ` Gary Thomas [this message]
2011-08-03 20:08       ` Phil Blundell

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