[Buildroot] [pkg-perl infra V7 5/6] manual: adding packages perl

Thomas De Schampheleire patrickdepinguin at gmail.com
Tue Feb 11 12:08:12 UTC 2014


Hi Francois,

On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 11:56 AM, Francois Perrad <fperrad at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Signed-off-by: Francois Perrad <francois.perrad at gadz.org>
> ---
>  docs/manual/adding-packages-perl.txt |  110 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  docs/manual/adding-packages.txt      |    2 +
>  2 files changed, 112 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 docs/manual/adding-packages-perl.txt
>
> diff --git a/docs/manual/adding-packages-perl.txt b/docs/manual/adding-packages-perl.txt
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..b272232
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/docs/manual/adding-packages-perl.txt
[..]
> +
> +Most of these data could be retrieved from https://metacpan.org/.
> +So, this file and the Config.in could be generated by running
> +the script +supports/scripts/scancpan Foo-Bar+ in the +TOPDIR+ directory
> +(or in the +BR2_EXTERNAL+ directory).

I would replace 'could' by 'can' in the above two sentences.

> +This script recursively creates packages for all required Perl/CPAN
> +dependencies.
> +
> +[[perl-package-reference]]
> +
> ++perl-package+ reference
> +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> +
> +As a policy, packages that provide Perl/CPAN modules should all be
> +named +perl-<something>+ in Buildroot.
> +
> +This infrastructure handles various Perl build systems :
> ++ExtUtils-MakeMaker+, +Module-Build+ and +Module-Build-Tiny+.
> ++Build.PL+ is always prefered when a package provides a +Makefile.PL+

preferred

Best regards,
Thomas



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