Re: perl 5.8.8 is ready

[Junqian Gordon Xu <xjqian@gmail.com>]

Jamie Lenehan wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 05:51:37AM -0500, Junqian Gordon Xu wrote:
> [...]
>   
>> Machine=Tosa
>> Distro=Angstrom
>>
>> perl-native-5.8.8 builds fine. But when I run bitbake perl-5.8.8,
>> it alway try to build perl-native-5.8.7 and perl-5.8.7 first. Am I 
>> missing something?
>>     
>
> As has already been mentioned this is due to DEFAULT_PREFERENCE setting. You
> can remove or change the DEFAULT_PREFERENCE or explicitly request bitbake to
> build the newer versions. See the section in the user manual that talks
> about this:
>
>   http://www.openembedded.org/user-manual&dpage=recipes_defaultpreference
>
>   
I've commented out the DEFAULT_PREFERENCE or set it to 0. But it still 
wants to compile 5.8.7 first.

Probably I did something wrong in my set-up. I will take a close look at 
the bb manual.

Thanks
Gordon