Re: openssl does not build on recent distributions with perl-5.16.0

[Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>]

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On 6/15/2012 7:36 AM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-06-15 at 07:15 -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
>> On Thursday, June 14, 2012, Martin Jansa wrote: Hi,
>> 
>> openembedded-core/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssl/openssl.inc
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>> is using perlpath.pl:
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>> do_configure () { cd util perl perlpath.pl
>> ${STAGING_BINDIR_NATIVE}
>> 
>> I wonder why it's using host perl and not staged perl-native May
>> be missing inherit perlnative
> 
> perlnative is not meant to be used as a replacement for the host 
> system's perl, its meant for building target modules and target
> perl itself.
> 

ah yes I was thinking of openssl and not openssl-native when replying

> We require perl to be on the host system. We're not meant to be
> using anything outside the standard perl install though. The
> alternative means effectively totally cratering build time as we'd
> have to build perl-native before pretty much anything else.
> 
> So the best solution is likely to have something that adds find.pl
> to the native sysroot and have these recipes depend on it, at least
> short term. I'm extremely reluctant to start adding perl-native
> dependencies throughout the system due to performance
> considerations.
> 

may be right fix should be fix openssl itself to not ask for obsolete
perl feature.


> Cheers,
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> Richard
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