Bug 12501

Summary:	Consider moving perl to perl-cross
Product:	[Build System, Metadata & Runtime] OE-Core	Reporter:	Ross Burton <ross.burton>
Component:	devtools / tool chain	Assignee:	Ross Burton <ross.burton>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Medium	CC:	alex.kanavin, meta.mr.watcher, meta.watcher, tim.orling
Version:	2.5
Target Milestone:	4.99
Hardware:	All
OS:	Multiple
Whiteboard:
OS type for building Yocto:	---	Type of Regression:	---
Verified:		Documentation change:	No (bug/feature does not impact docs)

Description Ross Burton 2018-01-18 13:42:26 UTC

We have to maintain a number of patches to cross compile Perl.  However there does exist a perl-cross overlay to cross compile Perl that is used by buildroot and others:

https://github.com/arsv/perl-cross

https://git.busybox.net/buildroot/tree/package/perl/perl.mk

Sharing this would mean we have to maintain less ourselves.

Comment 1 Alexander Kanavin 2018-06-01 18:22:03 UTC

I've started working on this; initial results are rather promising:

http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/log/?h=akanavin/perl-sanity

Comment 2 Alexander Kanavin 2018-06-05 14:58:52 UTC

So the current situation with the branch is that the new perl recipe builds without errors or warnings (in all three variants - native, target, nativesdk), and perl modules are split into packages in a reasonable sane way. The commit history is a mess, I know, and needs to be reworked.

There are however a few build failures:
Summary: 12 tasks failed:
  virtual:native:/home/ak/development/poky/meta/recipes-support/shared-mime-info/shared-mime-info_1.9.bb:do_compile
  /home/ak/development/poky/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/libxml-parser-perl_2.44.bb:do_configure
  /home/ak/development/poky/meta/recipes-extended/perl/libxml-namespacesupport-perl_1.12.bb:do_configure
  /home/ak/development/poky/meta/recipes-extended/perl/libxml-sax-base-perl_1.09.bb:do_configure
  /home/ak/development/poky/meta/recipes-extended/perl/libxml-sax-perl_1.00.bb:do_configure
  /home/ak/development/poky/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/libtest-needs-perl_0.002005.bb:do_configure
  /home/ak/development/poky/meta/recipes-extended/perl/libconvert-asn1-perl_0.27.bb:do_configure
  /home/ak/development/poky/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/liberror-perl_0.17025.bb:do_configure
  /home/ak/development/poky/meta/recipes-extended/perl/libtimedate-perl_2.30.bb:do_configure
  /home/ak/development/poky/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/liburi-perl_1.74.bb:do_configure
  /home/ak/development/poky/meta/recipes-devtools/icon-naming-utils/icon-naming-utils_0.8.90.bb:do_prepare_recipe_sysroot
  /home/ak/development/poky/meta/recipes-devtools/git/git_2.16.1.bb:do_install


and whether perl works on target isn't tested either.

As I'm about to switch jobs and countries I thought this is a good point to take a pause, hopefully this work can be completed later :)

Comment 3 Alexander Kanavin 2019-01-11 17:18:37 UTC

This has been merged to oe-core master :)