Changeset 856e3f4

Timestamp:

Aug 20, 2006, 2:02:27 PM (18 years ago)

Author:

Joe Ciccone <jciccone@…>

Children:

6d0fcac

Parents:

5609163

Message:

Add the perl fPIC patch.

Files:

• final-system/common/perl.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• final-system/multilib/perl-64bit.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• introduction/common/changelog.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• materials/common/patches.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• patches.ent (modified) (1 diff)

final-system/common/perl.xml

@@ -25 +25 @@
   <sect2 role="installation">
     <title>Installation of Perl</title>
+
+    <para os="p1">The following patch causes <filename>DynaLoader.a</filename>
+    to be built with -fPIC so it can be linked into a shared library
+    later.</para>
+
+<screen os="p2"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&perl-fpic-patch;</userinput></screen>
 
     <para os="a00">Before starting to configure, create a basic

final-system/multilib/perl-64bit.xml

@@ -30 +30 @@
     libraries and modules for the last version installed will be accessible. We
     therefore only install one version.</para>
+
+    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
+    href="../common/perl.xml"
+    xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='p1'])"/>
+
+    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
+    href="../common/perl.xml"
+    xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='p2'])"/>
 
     <para os="p3">Perl does not, by default, know about library directories with names other

introduction/common/changelog.xml

@@ -41 +41 @@
       <itemizedlist>
         <listitem>
+          <para>[jciccone] - Added the Perl fPIC patch which makes perl build
+          a shared DynaLoader.a.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
           <para>[Chris] - Removed mention of package users hint from
           "Package Management" page.</para>

materials/common/patches.xml

@@ -191 +191 @@
 
     <varlistentry>
+      <term>Perl fPIC Patch - <token>&perl-fpic-patch-size;</token>:</term>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>Download: <ulink
+        url="&patches-root;&perl-fpic-patch;"/></para>
+        <para>MD5 sum: <literal>&perl-fpic-patch-md5;</literal></para>
+      </listitem>
+    </varlistentry>
+
+    <varlistentry>
       <term>Readline Fixes Patch - <token>&readline-fixes-patch-size;</token>:</term>
       <listitem>

patches.ent

@@ -135 +135 @@
 <!-- Start of multilib patches -->
 
+<!ENTITY perl-fpic-patch "perl-&perl-version;-fPIC-1.patch">
+<!ENTITY perl-fpic-patch-md5 "7d784d82b1366ab88b5fc265387d2a16">
+<!ENTITY perl-fpic-patch-size "4 KB">
+
 <!ENTITY binutils-multilib-patch "binutils-&binutils-version;-genscripts_multilib-1.patch">
 <!ENTITY binutils-multilib-patch-md5 "b1d8d22ab473212abf1b19978415775b">