[OE-core] small number of perl modules that can't be cross-compiled

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Fri, 18 Nov 2016, André Draszik wrote:

> On Fri, 2016-11-18 at 09:09 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > On Fri, 18 Nov 2016, André Draszik wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, 2016-11-18 at 07:46 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > > > On Fri, 18 Nov 2016, André Draszik wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > On Fri, 2016-11-18 at 06:41 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > > > > >   after OE recipfying over 100 perl modules from CPAN, i'm down to
> > > > > > less than a dozen that are going to take more work, and a small
> > > > > > number
> > > > > > of those seem to be simply badly written in that they don't
> > > > > > support
> > > > > > cross-compilation for my target choice of "qemuppc". example
> > > > > > boilerplate recipe i put together produces this:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > $ make libauthen-pam-perl
> > > > > > ... snip ...
> > > > > > Checking if your kit is complete...
> > > > > > Looks good
> > > > > > checking for gcc... powerpc-wrs-linux-gcc -m32 -mhard-float
> > > > > > -mcpu=7400
> > > > > > --
> > > > > > sysroot=/home/rpjday/WRL/builds/msm/nov17/bitbake_build/tmp/sysroo
> > > > > > ts/q
> > > > > > emup
> > > > > > pc
> > > > > > checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
> > > > > > checking whether the C compiler works... configure: error: cannot
> > > > > > run
> > > > > > C compiled programs.
> > > > > > If you meant to cross compile, use `--host'.
> > > > > > See `config.log' for more details.
> > > > >
> > > > > It'd be useful to see config.log, ...
> > > >
> > > >   see bottom.
> > >
> > > That message is referring to config.log from autotools, not the
> > > bitbake do_configure.log. Should be somewhere below ${B}
> >
> >   sorry, my mistake ... see below:
> >
> > This file contains any messages produced by compilers while
> > running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake.
> >
> > It was created by Authen::PAM configure 0.16, which was
> > generated by GNU Autoconf 2.59.  Invocation command line was
> >
> >   $ ./configure
>
> I think the issues are in your recipe. You should see *many* arguments to
> configure. In particular --build= --host= --target=, but many more.
>
> Also, this explains that message:
>
> configure:1697: error: cannot run C compiled programs.
> If you meant to cross compile, use `--host'.

  i realize that now, so that will be today's project. thanks.

rday

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