[uClibc] buildroot & perl questions

[Manuel Novoa III]

On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 05:09:21PM +0100, Bruno THOMAS wrote:
> Hello Erik and all,
> 
> 
> I'm currently building a ucLibc development environment on an epia-M 
> nehemiah mobo. I've used a root_fs and copied in a new partition, then 
> chroot-ing to it. I want to rebuild the environment with buildroot.
> 
> As need perl, I've uncomented the line :
> TARGETS+=perl
> in the global Makefile
> 
> But I have some errors compiling perl. First (and maybe the source of 
> all errors), there no perl-5.8.0.tag.gz anymore (or I can't find it). So 
> I changed the perl.mk with perl-5.8.2. In the 5.8.2 there is already a 
> cross compiling patching dir, so I comented out the line :
> #$(PERL_CAT) $(PERL_SOURCE_2) | tar -C $(PERL_DIR) -xvf -
> in perl.mk, and patched the perl.patch to fit to the 5.8.2...
> But after all, I've seen in the Cross dir that the script 
> generate_config_sh is using perl....so...
> 
> Do I need to compile perl with 'sh Configure' ? or does it should work 
> with the Makefile, and if so, how ?

We regularly build perl (natively) as part of uClibc testing.  But
the perl target in buildroot has been broken for quite some time.
Since 5.8.1, the cross compile patch has been included in the perl
archive.  However, this patch is specific to arm.

Manuel