[Buildroot] [PATCH v9 02/10] perl: new package

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Mon Oct 8 19:13:25 UTC 2012


On Mon, 8 Oct 2012 18:56:09 +0200, François Perrad wrote:

> a BR user could choose between 2 methods for installing Perl :
> - a full install supplied by the script `installperl` from the Perl tarball
> - a custom install which reproduce the behavior of the BR package of microperl,
> where the user explicitily defines each module/file to install
> 
> In my sense, when a user chooses the full install, he must also use
> the post-build script which removes its useless files,
> like CORE/*.h or the Unicode support.

This is in complete contradiction with what we do in all other
Buildroot packages, so I don't think your statement actually makes
sense in the context of Buildroot. Unless BR2_HAVE_DEVFILES is enabled,
we don't want development files to be installed on the target.

Best regards,

Thomas
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