Re: [OE-core] [PATCH 1/2] binutils-cross-canadian: Add missing perl mpodules to RDEPENDS

Richard Purdie
2025-10-01T09:57:31Z

On Wed, 2025-10-01 at 14:17 +0530, Harish Sadineni wrote:
>  On 9/30/2025 7:17 PM, Richard Purdie wrote:
>  On Tue, 2025-09-30 at 05:39 -0700, Sadineni, Harish via lists.openembedded.org wrote:
> > > From: Harish Sadineni <Harish.Sadineni@windriver.com>
> > >
> > > In sdk while running "x86_64-poky-linux-gp-display-html --help" gives
> > > following error:
> > > $sdk/sysroots/x86_64-pokysdk-linux/usr/bin/x86_64-poky-linux->
> > > ./x86_64-poky-linux-gp-display-html --help
> > > Can't locate bigint.pm in @INC (you may need to install the bigint module
> > >
> > > By adding the following perl modules to RDEPENDS fixes the above errors:
> > >   nativesdk-perl-module-bignum
> > >   nativesdk-perl-module-bigint
> > >   nativesdk-perl-module-math-bigint
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Harish Sadineni <Harish.Sadineni@windriver.com>
> > > ---
> > >  meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils-cross-canadian.inc | 1 +
> > >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils-cross-canadian.inc b/meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils-cross-canadian.inc
> > > index 7d7ffe92ce..9dc73fbdf1 100644
> > > --- a/meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils-cross-canadian.inc
> > > +++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils-cross-canadian.inc
> > > @@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ PN = "binutils-cross-canadian-${TRANSLATED_TARGET_ARCH}"
> > >  BPN = "binutils"
> > >
> > >  DEPENDS = "flex-native bison-native virtual/nativesdk-cross-cc virtual/nativesdk-libc nativesdk-zlib nativesdk-gettext nativesdk-flex"
> > > +RDEPENDS:${PN} += "nativesdk-perl-module-bignum nativesdk-perl-module-bigint nativesdk-perl-module-math-bigint"
> > >  EXTRA_OECONF += "--with-sysroot=${SDKPATH}/sysroots/${TUNE_PKGARCH}${TARGET_VENDOR}-${TARGET_OS} \
> > >                  --enable-poison-system-directories \
> > >                  "
> > >
> > This is probably the right direction but shouldn't this be for the
> > gprofng package rather than ${PN}?
> >
> Hi Richard,
>
>  In the SDK at $sdk/sysroots/x86_64-pokysdk-linux/usr/bin/x86_64-
> poky-linux, the script "x86_64-poky-linux-gp-display-html" is not
> pulled or packaged by the gprofng package.
>  Instead, it is installed as part of the binutils-cross-canadian
> package.
>
> Adding the perl module dependencies to gprofng package will not
> resolve this issue , it would be effective only if "nativesdk-
> gprofng" is explicitly installed by the user.
>

Fair enough. Should x86_64-poky-linux-gp-display-html not be part of
the gprofng package though? Perhaps we should change it to be packaged
there, then add the dependency to that?

Cheers,

Richard