Recent advances in cross building src:perl

Niko Tyni ntyni at debian.org
Mon Jan 25 19:45:09 UTC 2016


On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 01:06:38PM +0000, Wookey wrote:
> +++ Neil Williams [2016-01-25 08:48 +0000]:
> > On Sun, 24 Jan 2016 20:15:46 +0200
> > Niko Tyni <ntyni at debian.org> wrote:
> 
> > Even then, this data must be compared in-memory, not as files. The
> > upstream changes routinely change the ordering of the output which
> > makes the output of `diff` useless.
> 
> Is that actually still true. Perl people I talked to ages ago said
> 'yes we could and should trivially sort the hash then at least they
> would be consistently ordered so diff would work'. Maybe no-one ever
> did that, in which case someone probably should.

The variable names in config.sh do look sorted to me. I hope this is
not a problem anymore.

I'm attaching a current one for mipsel as an example so everybody is on
the same page. The 'cppsymbols' value looks really scary, otherwise most
things seem quite straightforward.
-- 
Niko
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