[Buildroot] [PATCH 2/2] microperl: install host-microperl in $(HOST_DIR)/opt/perl

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Le Tue, 27 Mar 2012 09:06:18 +0200,
Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> a écrit :

> This commit is a tentative at fixing some Perl-related build problems
> we are having nowadays, due to the fact that microperl now depends on
> host-microperl. Since the perl binary from host-microperl is installed
> in $(HOST_DIR)/usr/bin, it gets picked up when we run host tools like
> host-intltool, which were normally meant to be used against the
> distribution-provided Perl.
> 
> This problem currently causes between a third to half of the failures
> in our random build tests.
> 
> Another, cleaner, option would be to make host-intltool depend on
> host-microperl, but this would require every user needing intltool to
> build a host Perl interpreter, even if the real reason for build the
> host Perl interpreter is only needed for those who want to build the
> Perl interpreter for the target. This commit is really a test at
> trying another solution than adding this dependency, to see whether it
> turns out to be a reasonable trade-off or not. Later developments and
> improvements in the Perl area may require to switch to a different
> solution than the one implemented by this patch.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>

I have tested
http://autobuild.buildroot.org/results/9980055bf8ebc1ea442f5affc3418eb869c4c90d/defconfig
without the patch, in which case we have the host-intltool problem.
With this patch, this problem disappears and this defconfig builds
until the end with no problem.

Best regards,

Thomas
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