Hi Dexuan, On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 21:18 +0800, Dexuan Cui wrote: > Currently both perl-native (a.k.a. ${STAGING_BINDIR_NATIVE}/perl )and > perl-native-runtime(a.k.a. the system perl, or /usr/bin/perl) appear in > the PATH when bitbake is running. > This can cause some race conditions: many places detecting perl from PATH > can't make sure which path will be used as this depends on when perl-native's > populate_sysroot is finished, e.g., automake-native and autoconf-native could > use perl-native-runtime while gnu-config-native could use perl-native and > this inconsistent usages can cause trouble, e.g., bug 941. > > And, as RP suggested, "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". > > So I made the following changes to try to address the aboves issues: > 1) populate perl-native into its own directory so it won't appear in PATH > by default, and add perlnative.bbclass for these recipes that really depend > on perl-native; > 2) check all perl-native references and correct the ones that should be > perl-native-runtime; > 3) fix any building issues due to the new location of perl-native, > especially cpan and cpan-base .bbclass. > > With the changes, bug 941 doesn't appear. > > Tests I did are: > I tried "bitbale core-image-sato-sdk and meta-toolchain-gmae" in x86_32 and > x86_64 Ubuntu hosts and everything seems building fine. > > > Please review the changes and comment on them. Thanks!
I had a look through the series and it looks good to me. Hopefully this addresses the perl issues people have been seeing once and for all (and unclogs the dependencies a little) :) I'm going to leave this on the mailing list for a while to give others a chance to review it though. Cheers, Richard _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core