Re: Using perl to build perl

On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 04:49:46PM +1000, Brendan O'Dea wrote: > I presume that once all of this is done, debhelper can then depend on > "perl | perl-stage1", which would allow the normal perl packages to > build-depend on debhelper. This all seems unnecessary nowadays. debhelper is Multi-Arch:

Re: Using perl to build perl

On 16 April 2016 at 19:20, Niko Tyni wrote: > For a long time, src:perl has had some limited support for bootstrapping a > new architecture without /usr/bin/perl. We've gone to quite some trouble > to avoid needing perl to build perl as far as possible, including quite > a few

Re: Using perl to build perl

Hi Niko, Thanks for communicating your intentions early! On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 12:20:08PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote: > (cc'ing the debian-cross list, but please let me know if there's a > "right" place to discuss architecture bootstrapping.) Partially. As far as I know there are two independent

Using perl to build perl

(cc'ing the debian-cross list, but please let me know if there's a "right" place to discuss architecture bootstrapping.) For a long time, src:perl has had some limited support for bootstrapping a new architecture without /usr/bin/perl. We've gone to quite some trouble to avoid needing perl to