[meta-oe][PATCH] openssl: use the perl of perl-native instead of the host perl

[meta-oe][PATCH] openssl: use the perl of perl-native instead of the host perl

[Yue Tao]

The openssl can't build with very old perl, such as 5.8.9, so force it
to use the perl-native to avoid host dependence issue.

Signed-off-by: Yue Tao <Yue.Tao@windriver.com>
---
 meta/recipes-connectivity/openssl/openssl.inc |    3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssl/openssl.inc b/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssl/openssl.inc
index 1a0031e..6990139 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssl/openssl.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssl/openssl.inc
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ export EX_LIBS = "-lgcc -ldl"
 export AS = "${CC} -c"
 EXTRA_OEMAKE = "-e MAKEFLAGS="
 
-inherit pkgconfig siteinfo multilib_header ptest
+inherit pkgconfig siteinfo multilib_header ptest perlnative
 
 PACKAGES =+ "libcrypto libssl ${PN}-misc openssl-conf"
 FILES_libcrypto = "${libdir}/libcrypto${SOLIBS}"
@@ -208,6 +208,7 @@ do_install_ptest () {
 	mkdir -p ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/util
 	install util/opensslwrap.sh    ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/util
 	install util/shlib_wrap.sh     ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/util
+	sed -i -e 's#^PERL=.*#PERL= /usr/bin/perl#g' ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/Makefile
 }
 
 do_install_append_class-native() {
-- 
1.7.9.5

Re: [meta-oe][PATCH] openssl: use the perl of perl-native instead of the host perl

[Burton, Ross]

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On 15 July 2016 at 04:24, Yue Tao <Yue.Tao@windriver.com> wrote:

> The openssl can't build with very old perl, such as 5.8.9, so force it
> to use the perl-native to avoid host dependence issue.
>

Considering that Perl 5.8.9 was released in 2008 (so eight years ago), what
distribution is still shipping perl 5.8.9?  Instead of forcing everyone to
build perl-native before openssl can build (and adding perlnative to more
recipes as they're discovered to fail with ancient perl) anyone using an
old distribution should simply use buildtools, as this is exactly what
they're for.

Ross

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