Recent advances in cross building src:perl

[Neil Williams]

On Mon, 25 Jan 2016 21:45:09 +0200
Niko Tyni <ntyni at debian.org> wrote:

> 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.

Ah! That makes more sense. The config.sh is sorted - good.
perl-cross-debian also tried to manage the config.h and other bits of
the integration which is where those problems arose.

https://sources.debian.net/src/perl-cross-debian/0.0.5/doc/new-arch.pod/

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Neil Williams
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