On Son, 2009-01-04 at 11:23 +0100, Leon Woestenberg wrote: [...] > On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 4:06 AM, Paul Mundt <lethal@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: [...] I'm ignoring the "cross-compile perl" issue - haven't tried it for years. > 5. Tool *version* dependency is hard to get right. When cross-building > 30 software packages all requiring native perl, we probably need to > build a few versions of perl (native), one for each set of packages. perl is IMHO special (and quite different to others - including especially autotools): perl5 is used widely enough so that "one somewhat recent version" should cover all of 30 software packages. The hard part are the CPAN modules and their versions which are really a PITA. As long as you don't use modules from CPAN, "perl5" should be specific enough. Bernd -- Firmix Software GmbH http://www.firmix.at/ mobil: +43 664 4416156 fax: +43 1 7890849-55 Embedded Linux Development and Services -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
