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Peter Simons 1e575d3572 perl-5.8 and perl-5.10: fixed build on MacOS X
On MacOS X, we used to use the native perl interpreter from /usr/bin.
Unfortunately, that interpreter fails to build a number of packages
(Subversion, Git, etc. ...), because it assumes knowledge about the
underlying C compiler that is not valid for the compiler used by Nix.
For example, /usr/bin/perl assumes that the compiler can build binaries
for both the ppc and the x86 architecture. /usr/bin/gcc can do that, but
the gcc from Nix can't.

The solution is to compile Perl 5.10 in Nix so that the ./configure
phase can properly detect the system's capabilities. However, note that
the resulting binary is impure: it will find headers in /usr/include and
libraries in /usr/lib. In this respect, the Nix-compiled perl binary is
no different than the native one in /usr/bin -- it's just configured
more accurately.

svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=17870
2009-10-19 09:17:10 +00:00
Lluís Batlle i Rossell e5654ae80f Reverting simons' r17618, which causes a major stdenv rebuild.
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=17622
2009-10-02 19:05:39 +00:00
Peter Simons 67cea803fa perl-5.8 and perl-5.10: fixed build on MacOS X
On MacOS X, we used to use the native perl interpreter from /usr/bin.
Unfortunately, that interpreter fails to build a number of packages
(Subversion, Git, etc. ...), because it assumes knowledge about the underlying
C compiler that is not valid for the compiler used by Nix. For example,
/usr/bin/perl assumes that the compiler can build binaries for both the ppc and
the x86 architecture. /usr/bin/FCC can do that, but the gcc from Nix can't.

The solution is to compile Perl 5.10 via Nix so that it can properly configure
itself. However, note that the resulting binary is impure: it will find headers
in /usr/include and libraries in /usr/lib -- something a pure perl binary
wouldn't do. In this respect our Nix-compiled perl binary is not better than
the native one from /usr/bin -- it's just more accurately configured.

svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=17618
2009-10-02 16:26:05 +00:00
Lluís Batlle i Rossell d4aedd92cc I revert my changes to get nixpkgs working on armv5tel-linux.
I thought I didn't change stdenv, but I did. This will go soon into the stdenv
branch then.
Reverse-merging r16467 through r16465.


svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=16468
2009-07-26 22:47:33 +00:00
Lluís Batlle i Rossell 4f5e00f686 Fixing perl so it builds well with stdenvNative in my arm-linux debian.
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=16467
2009-07-26 21:48:17 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 5f70884dd3 * Slight purity improvement.
svn path=/nixpkgs/branches/stdenv-updates/; revision=15471
2009-05-06 14:03:26 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 7e4dcb6c2b * Urgh. Perl is built during the stdenv bootstrap, where we don't
have libpthread.  So don't build with thread support there.

svn path=/nixpkgs/branches/stdenv-updates/; revision=15253
2009-04-22 17:44:44 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra a98d8aee74 * Install Perl modules in $out/lib/perl5. This is what Perl wants by
default, but it didn't happen in Nixpkgs because the string "perl"
  appeared in the prefix, and in that case Perl uses $out/lib.
* Enable thread-safe Perl while we're at it.

svn path=/nixpkgs/branches/stdenv-updates/; revision=15252
2009-04-22 17:37:21 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra ff057f0d07 * Build libperl.so.
svn path=/nixpkgs/branches/stdenv-updates/; revision=15233
2009-04-21 22:38:52 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 59d88c1772 * Revert r10833, it doesn't really work. Instead build ghcboot
with Perl 5.8.

svn path=/nixpkgs/branches/stdenv-updates-merge/; revision=10834
2008-02-22 14:43:00 +00:00