Christopher Friedt schrieb:
> Perl is a real PITA to cross-compile. I would almost suggest that you
> don't bother... I have the same sentiment for more recent Python
> versions too.
>
> Is there something specific that you need to compile perl from stratch
> for? Can you just use an older version that does potentially
> cross-compile? Would you be happy just installing a binary package
> into your SYSROOT (i.e. /usr/armv4t-softfloat-linux-gnueabi)?
>   
well while working on it i thought it would be cool to cross-compile it
myself. In the end i actually installed a binary version because i was
not able to get it to work. I have to say tho that cross-compiling
python was not such a problem i had to fiddle around a lil, but it was
WAYS easier than perl.
> There are binary packages available through a link here:
>
> http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Gentoo
>   
Yep that's where i actually got it
> If you absolutely need to compile it, then why don't you just set up a
> native compilation environment? Cross-compile gcc, portage, etc for
> armv4t, and any other dependencies of perl, and then boot the
> FreeRunner from your new kernel into a root filesystem that you've
> populated with all of the previous binary packages you've compiled.
> Then you should be able to 'emerge perl', although it will likely take
>   
A long time? My guess is that it would take ages.... Well as i said i
emerged a binary package of perl and didn't bother myself with it any
more. It would be cool tho if it would be easier to cross-compile, but
what would life be without obstacles...

Cheers,

Christoph
> a long time.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris
>
>
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