[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] perl: update config.{sub, guess} using autotools hook

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Wed Oct 26 20:34:56 UTC 2016


Hello,

On Tue, 25 Oct 2016 23:21:09 +0200, Erico Nunes wrote:
> perl may fail to build on newer host architectures such as aarch64 due
> to its inability to guess the host architecture to build 'miniperl',
> which is built during the process. An error message looks like this:
> 
>   Configuring build-time miniperl for unknown
>   ERROR: No $target defined (?!)
>   ERROR: configure --mode=buildmini failed
> 
> This happens because the config.sub and config.guess files from perl are
> not modified and may become outdated.
> These files are normally updated automatically by a Buildroot hook for
> autotools packages, to avoid problems like these.
> Although perl uses the config.sub and config.guess files, it is not a
> strict autotools package, so it is not defined as an "autotools-package"
> in Buildroot and so it doesn't inherit the hook.
> This commit makes perl borrow the hook from the autotools infrastructure
> so that it can build on newer build architectures.
> This has been tested by building it on an aarch64 host machine.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Erico Nunes <nunes.erico at gmail.com>
> ---
>  package/perl/perl.mk | 6 ++++++
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

Applied to master after fixing the commit title, as suggested by
François.

Thanks!

Thomas
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