Hi, Thanks Ulf.
I just tried this on my dora branch instead of my disable-perl bbappend and it worked for me. Tested-by: Ash Charles <[email protected]> --Ash On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 11:29 PM, Ulf Samuelsson <[email protected]> wrote: > xfconf-4.10.0 does not use OE sysroot as is. > --with-sysroot=yes > will make configure run CC --print-sysroot > and use that. > > When searching the PATH for perl, no target perl is found, > since PATH does not contain any reference. > Instead native perl is found, and if certain perl packages > are installed on the host machine, the xfconf perl support > is enabled which may cause the build to fail on 64 bit hosts. > If the perl packages are not installed on the host, then > perl support in xfconf is disabled, and the xfconf build > will succeed, even on 64 bit hosts. > > If native perl is found, and the perl packages are available > on the host, the perl support is enabled. > > Since native perl is used, the native linker is used to link the > resulting *target* code. > > The perl support requires some libraries, which are built for the target. > If the host is 64 bit (x86_64) and the target is 32 bit (ARM?), > there is a mismatch which is detected by the linker, > and the libraries found are rejected. > > If the host does not have the correct libraries, > then the xfconf build fails. > If the host has the correct libraries, then the linker will try > to link host libraries with the target application. > > The patch will define PERL as the target perl. > This means that configure will look for the required perl > packages in the target sysroot, instead of in the native filesystem. > > The patch has been tested in Angstrom master, which does not > build the required perl packages, and thus perl support > in xfconf is disabled, and the build succeeds. > > A simpler way to do this, proposed by Charles Ash <[email protected]> > is to simply disable the perl-support in xfconf. > This patch will be better, if ever the support for the needed > perl packages is added to the OpenEmbedded/Angstrom build. > > > Signed-off-by: Ulf Samuelsson <[email protected]> > --- > meta-xfce/recipes-xfce/xfconf/xfconf_4.10.0.bb | 6 +++++- > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/meta-xfce/recipes-xfce/xfconf/xfconf_4.10.0.bb > b/meta-xfce/recipes-xfce/xfconf/xfconf_4.10.0.bb > index 4ea2b88..6d5bf57 100644 > --- a/meta-xfce/recipes-xfce/xfconf/xfconf_4.10.0.bb > +++ b/meta-xfce/recipes-xfce/xfconf/xfconf_4.10.0.bb > @@ -2,10 +2,14 @@ DESCRIPTION = "Xfce configuration daemon and utilities" > SECTION = "x11/wm" > LICENSE = "GPLv2" > LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=59530bdf33659b29e73d4adb9f9f6552" > -DEPENDS = "dbus-glib libxfce4util perl-native" > +DEPENDS = "dbus-glib libxfce4util perl" > +PR="r1" > > inherit xfce > > +EXTRA_OECONF += "PERL=${STAGING_DIR_TARGET}/usr/bin/perl" > +EXTRA_OECONF += "--with-sysroot=yes" > + > SRC_URI += "file://0001-Simplify-checks.patch" > SRC_URI[md5sum] = "4ed48150a03fb5f42b455494307b7f28" > SRC_URI[sha256sum] = > "175219a441cc7d0f210bbd1a3b0abba41598627cd9db27235811400c3e100576" > -- > 1.7.9.5 > > _______________________________________________ > Openembedded-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel _______________________________________________ Openembedded-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel
