Changeset 1fedb6d in clfs-sysroot for BOOK/final-system

Timestamp:

Jun 16, 2006, 4:58:39 PM (19 years ago)

Author:

Jim Gifford <clfs@…>

Branches:

master

Children:

9748f02

Parents:

795a4b8

Message:

r3943@server (orig r1772): jciccone | 2006-06-16 15:32:03 -0700
Added information about cross-compiling perl.

Location:

BOOK/final-system

Files:

• arm-chapter.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• common/perl.xml (modified) (1 diff)

BOOK/final-system/arm-chapter.xml

@@ -25 +25 @@
   <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="common/sed.xml"/>
   <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="common/libtool.xml"/>
-  <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="common/perl.xml"/>
+  <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="arm/perl.xml"/>
   <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="common/readline.xml"/>
   <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="common/zlib.xml"/>

BOOK/final-system/common/perl.xml

@@ -26 +26 @@
     <title>Installation of Perl</title>
 
-    <important os="w1"><para>Information on cross-compiling perl has not been added yet.</para></important>
-
-    <para os="a00">Before starting to configure, create a basic
-    <filename>/etc/hosts</filename> file which will be referenced in one
-    of Perl's configuration files as well as being used used by the testsuite
-    if you run that.</para>
-
-<screen os="a01"><userinput>echo "127.0.0.1 localhost $(hostname)" &gt; /etc/hosts</userinput></screen>
-
-    <para os="a">To have full control over the way Perl is set up, run the
-    interactive <command>Configure</command> script and hand-pick the way
-    this package is built. If the defaults it auto-detects are suitable,
-    prepare Perl for compilation with:</para>
-
-<screen os="b"><userinput>./configure.gnu --prefix=/usr \
-   -Dman1dir=/usr/share/man/man1 \
-   -Dman3dir=/usr/share/man/man3 \
-   -Dpager="/bin/less -isR"</userinput></screen>
-
-    <variablelist os="c">
-      <title>The meaning of the configure option:</title>
-
-      <varlistentry os="c1">
-        <term><parameter>-Dpager="/bin/less -isR"</parameter></term>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>This corrects an error in the way that <command>perldoc</command>
-          invokes the <command>less</command> program.</para>
-        </listitem>
-      </varlistentry>
-      <varlistentry os="c2">
-        <term><parameter>-Dman1dir=/usr/share/man/man1 -Dman3dir=/usr/share/man/man3</parameter></term>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>Since Groff is not installed yet,
-          <command>configure.gnu</command> thinks that we do not want
-          man pages for Perl. Issuing these parameters overrides this decision.</para>
-        </listitem>
-      </varlistentry>
-    </variablelist>
-
-    <para os="d">Compile the package:</para>
-
-<screen os="e"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
-
-    <para os="h">To test the results, issue:
-    <userinput>make test</userinput>.</para>
-
-    <para os="j">Install the package:</para>
-
-<screen os="k"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
+    <para os="p1">The following patch fixes issues with perl and
+    cross-compiling:</para>
+
+<screen os="p2"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&perl-cross_compile-patch;</userinput></screen>
+
+    <para os="a">The Cross directory contains a Makefile for cross-compiling.</para>
+
+<screen os="b"><userinput>cd Cross</userinput></screen>
+
+    <para os="c">Compile the package:</para>
+
+<screen os="d"><userinput>make ARCH= CROSS_COMPILE="${LFS_TARGET}-"</userinput></screen>
+
+    <para os="e">Install the package:</para>
+
+<screen os="f"><userinput>make DESTDIR=${LFS} install</userinput></screen>
 
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