From: Tom Rini <tom_rini@mentor.com>
To: "Cui, Dexuan" <dexuan.cui@intel.com>
Cc: 'Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer'
<openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 37/58] gnu-config-native: add dependency on perl-native
Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 07:10:03 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DC9473B.1000702@mentor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1865303E0DED764181A9D882DEF65FB69334F4BD8B@shsmsx502.ccr.corp.intel.com>
On 05/10/2011 07:09 AM, Cui, Dexuan wrote:
> Tom Rini wrote:
>> On 05/05/2011 03:34 PM, Richard Purdie wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2011-05-05 at 22:18 +0800, Cui, Dexuan wrote:
>>>> Recently I have been looking into it and I've made some commits (the
>>>> top 5 small commits) in
>>>> http://git.pokylinux.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/log/?h=dcui/master_perl-native
>>>> BTW: the work is not done completely as some recipes don't build
>>>> with the changes. Please have a look anyway to see if I'm in the
>>>> correct direction.
>>>>
>>>> However, I've got some difficulties and hope to get your help:
>>>> 1) As you said, after we install perl-native into its own
>>>> directory,
>>>> any recipe not depending on perl-native doesn't see
>>>> ${STAGING_BINDIR_NATIVE}/perl-native/perl unnecessarily.
>>>> However, if we keep the current code, what's the bad consequence if
>>>> the recipe not depending on perl-native does see perl of
>>>> perl-native?
>>>> looks no?
>>>
>>> We have an assumption that perl is already on the system we're
>>> building on. Perl is a relatively stable language with defined
>>> compatibility and interoperability. Most recipes are therefore fine
>>> using perl from the build system directly and don't need
>>> perl-native. I think we defined a special name for the build system
>>> perl (perl-native-runtime?). Better names are welcome but we should
>>> ensure we use the right dependency in the right places.
>>>
>>> The time to use perl-native instead of perl-native-runtime is where
>>> any perl module is being built, perl itself is being built or
>>> anything that has an explicit dependency on the perl version present.
>>
>> The problem that follows up is that once we have built any sort of
>> perl-native we then have to go and be really really really careful
>> that nothing that's not (a) target perl (b) some perl module we built
>> and need to run uses it. Otherwise we run into the problems I think
>> that've been hit here. Problems like this are why for OE I just made
>> perl-native be the perl we rely on for everything.
>>
>> I know we talked about this before and you had a strong desire to try
>> and do something else but I think this shows maybe we need to try
>> going down the perl-native everywhere path first and then see if we
>> can't do something different.
> Hi Tom, do you mean we should try to use perl-native first and try the
> best to avoid using /usr/bin/perl?
Yes. Roughly, make automake-native/autoconf-native depend on
perl-native and perform a few changes to libtool-native and
gnu-config-native to make sure it uses /usr/bin/env perl.
--
Tom Rini
Mentor Graphics Corporation
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2011-04-16 6:53 [PATCH 00/58] Consolidated Updates and Bug Fixes Saul Wold
2011-04-16 6:53 ` [PATCH 01/58] gstreamer: upgrade to vesion 0.10.32 Saul Wold
2011-04-16 6:53 ` [PATCH 02/58] gst-plugins-base: upgrade to version 0.10.32 Saul Wold
2011-04-16 6:53 ` [PATCH 03/58] gst-plugins-good: upgrade to version 0.10.28 Saul Wold
2011-04-16 6:53 ` [PATCH 04/58] gst-plugins-bad: upgrade to version 0.10.21 Saul Wold
2011-04-16 6:53 ` [PATCH 05/58] gst-plugins-ugly: upgrade to version 0.10.17 Saul Wold
2011-04-16 6:53 ` [PATCH 06/58] ofono: upgrade to version 0.45 Saul Wold
2011-04-16 6:53 ` [PATCH 07/58] alsa-lib: upgrade to version 1.0.24.1 Saul Wold
2011-04-16 6:53 ` [PATCH 08/58] telepathy-glib: upgrade to version 0.14.3 Saul Wold
2011-04-16 6:53 ` [PATCH 09/58] telepathy-idle: upgrade to version 0.1.8 Saul Wold
2011-04-16 6:53 ` [PATCH 10/58] telepathy-mission-control: upgrade to version 5.7.9 Saul Wold
2011-04-16 6:53 ` [PATCH 11/58] gssdp: upgrade to version 0.10.0 Saul Wold
2011-04-16 6:53 ` [PATCH 12/58] gupnp: upgrade to version 0.16.0 Saul Wold
2011-04-16 6:53 ` [PATCH 13/58] distro_tracking_fields: update for gstreamer, gupnp, telepathy-glib, etc Saul Wold
2011-04-16 6:53 ` [PATCH 14/58] documentation/adt-manual/adt-eclipse.xml: Fixed link to autotools Saul Wold
2011-04-16 6:53 ` [PATCH 15/58] libsoup-2.4: Upgrade to 2.32.2 (from 2.32.1) Saul Wold
2011-04-16 6:53 ` [PATCH 16/58] x11perf: Upgrade to 1.5.3 (from 1.5.2) Saul Wold
2011-04-16 6:53 ` [PATCH 17/58] libcanberry: Upgrade to 0.28 (from 0.26) Saul Wold
2011-04-16 6:53 ` [PATCH 18/58] xz: Upgrade to 5.0.2 (from 5.0.0) Saul Wold
2011-04-16 6:53 ` [PATCH 19/58] polkit-gnome: Upgrade to 0.101 (from 0.99) Saul Wold
2011-04-16 6:54 ` [PATCH 20/58] oprofileui: upgrade to latest git version Saul Wold
2011-04-16 6:54 ` [PATCH 21/58] libxt: update from 1.0.9 to the latest version 1.1.1 Saul Wold
2011-04-16 6:54 ` [PATCH 22/58] libxi: upgrade from 1.4.0 to the latest version 1.4.2 Saul Wold
2011-04-16 6:54 ` [PATCH 23/58] fixesproto: upgrade from 4.1.2 to the latest version 5.0 Saul Wold
2011-04-16 6:54 ` [PATCH 24/58] xproto: upgrade from 7.0.20 to the latest version 7.0.21 Saul Wold
2011-04-16 6:54 ` [PATCH 25/58] gnome-doc-utils: upgrade from 0.20.4 to the latest version 0.20.5 Saul Wold
2011-04-16 6:54 ` [PATCH 26/58] xextproto: upgrade from 7.1.2 to the latest version 7.2.0 Saul Wold
2011-04-16 6:54 ` [PATCH 27/58] libpciaccess: upgrade from 0.12.0 to the latest version 0.12.1 Saul Wold
2011-04-16 6:54 ` [PATCH 28/58] cronie: upgrade from 1.4.6 to the latest version 1.4.7 Saul Wold
2011-04-16 6:54 ` [PATCH 29/58] preferred-xorg-versions.inc: update libxt, libxi, fixesproto, xproto, xextproto and libpciaccess Saul Wold
2011-04-16 6:54 ` [PATCH 30/58] distro_tracking_fields.inc: update the info for the following recipes Saul Wold
2011-04-16 6:54 ` [PATCH 31/58] xf86-input-synaptics: upgrade from 1.3.0 to 1.4.0 Saul Wold
2011-04-16 6:54 ` [PATCH 32/58] xf86-input-vmmouse: upgrade from 12.6.10 to 12.7.0 Saul Wold
2011-04-16 6:54 ` [PATCH 33/58] evieext: upgrade from 1.1.0 to 1.1.1 Saul Wold
2011-04-16 6:54 ` [PATCH 34/58] xf86-input-keyboard: upgrade from 1.5.0 to 1.6.0 Saul Wold
2011-04-16 6:54 ` [PATCH 35/58] xkbcomp: upgrade from 1.2.0 to 1.2.1 Saul Wold
2011-04-16 6:54 ` [PATCH 36/58] clutter-1.6: fix tarball md5sum and add json-glib to dependencies Saul Wold
2011-04-16 6:54 ` [PATCH 37/58] gnu-config-native: add dependency on perl-native Saul Wold
2011-04-18 4:53 ` Richard Purdie
2011-04-18 5:43 ` Cui, Dexuan
2011-04-18 6:54 ` Richard Purdie
2011-04-18 14:18 ` Cui, Dexuan
2011-05-05 14:18 ` Cui, Dexuan
2011-05-05 22:34 ` Richard Purdie
2011-05-06 8:52 ` Cui, Dexuan
2011-05-06 11:31 ` Richard Purdie
2011-05-06 12:02 ` Koen Kooi
2011-05-10 14:02 ` Cui, Dexuan
2011-05-10 14:10 ` Richard Purdie
2011-05-10 14:20 ` Cui, Dexuan
2011-05-11 0:50 ` Saul Wold
2011-05-11 1:00 ` Cui, Dexuan
2011-05-06 14:27 ` Tom Rini
2011-05-10 14:09 ` Cui, Dexuan
2011-05-10 14:10 ` Tom Rini [this message]
2011-04-16 6:54 ` [PATCH 38/58] libnewt: fix parallel-make issue Saul Wold
2011-04-16 6:54 ` [PATCH 39/58] libdrm: upgrade from 2.4.23 to 2.4.25 Saul Wold
2011-04-16 6:54 ` [PATCH 40/58] mesa: upgrade to 7.10.2 Saul Wold
2011-04-16 6:55 ` [PATCH 41/58] xf86-input-mouse: upgrade from 1.6 to 1.7 Saul Wold
2011-04-16 6:55 ` [PATCH 42/58] pango: upgrade from 1.28.3 to 1.28.4 Saul Wold
2011-04-16 6:55 ` [PATCH 43/58] qemu: Fix the qemu GL application start failure Saul Wold
2011-04-16 6:55 ` [PATCH 44/58] task-poky-lsb.bb:Add locale resoures which is needed by LSB Test Suite Saul Wold
2011-04-16 6:55 ` [PATCH 45/58] gcc: Add "--enable-clocale=gnu" option for LSB Saul Wold
2011-04-16 6:55 ` [PATCH 46/58] poky-lsb: Add "largefile" feature for LSB distro Saul Wold
2011-04-16 6:55 ` [PATCH 47/58] setuptools: Make options for setup.py more flexible Saul Wold
2011-04-16 12:11 ` Koen Kooi
2011-04-16 19:46 ` Koen Kooi
2011-04-16 21:43 ` Saul Wold
2011-04-17 13:26 ` Gary Thomas
2011-04-17 17:02 ` Koen Kooi
2011-04-16 6:55 ` [PATCH 48/58] libexif: upgrade to 0.6.20 Saul Wold
2011-04-16 6:55 ` [PATCH 49/58] libxml2: upgrade to version 2.7.8 Saul Wold
2011-04-16 6:55 ` [PATCH 50/58] openssl: upgrade to version 0.9.8r Saul Wold
2011-04-16 6:55 ` [PATCH 51/58] rsync: upgrade to version 3.0.8 Saul Wold
2011-04-16 6:55 ` [PATCH 52/58] documentation/adt-manual/adt-prepare.xml: Fixed URL for nightly builds Saul Wold
2011-04-16 6:55 ` [PATCH 53/58] documentation/adt-manual/adt-eclipse.xml: Fixed URL with pokylinux.org Saul Wold
2011-04-16 6:55 ` [PATCH 54/58] documentation/kernel-manual/kernel-how-to.xml: replaced 'pokylinux' with 'yoctoproject' Saul Wold
2011-04-16 6:55 ` [PATCH 55/58] netbase: automatically bring up eth0 Saul Wold
2011-04-16 6:55 ` [PATCH 56/58] netbase: add /etc/network/interfaces file for qemumips & qemuppc Saul Wold
2011-04-16 6:55 ` [PATCH 57/58] slang: Update to 2.2.4 Saul Wold
2011-04-16 6:56 ` [PATCH 58/58] jpeg: add link libjpeg.so.62 for LSB library test Saul Wold
2011-04-18 4:54 ` [PATCH 00/58] Consolidated Updates and Bug Fixes Richard Purdie
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