small number of perl modules that can't be cross-compiled

["Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>]

  after OE recipfying over 100 perl modules from CPAN, i'm down to
less than a dozen that are going to take more work, and a small number
of those seem to be simply badly written in that they don't support
cross-compilation for my target choice of "qemuppc". example
boilerplate recipe i put together produces this:

$ make libauthen-pam-perl
... snip ...
Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
checking for gcc... powerpc-wrs-linux-gcc -m32 -mhard-float -mcpu=7400
--sysroot=/home/rpjday/WRL/builds/msm/nov17/bitbake_build/tmp/sysroots/qemuppc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... configure: error: cannot run
C compiled programs.
If you meant to cross compile, use `--host'.
See `config.log' for more details.
Error in configuring the Authen::PAM module.
... snip ...

  so i'm assuming the source itself for Authen::PAM:

https://metacpan.org/pod/Authen::PAM

is somehow flawed in that it doesn't properly recognize
cross-compilation, would that be it?

  i'm about to peruse the build process, but if someone has a quick
answer as to what the issue is here, there are 2 or 3 other modules
that have exactly the same issue. much thanks.

rday

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