From jian_zhou@realsil.com.cn

Hello, I¡¯m trying to porting perl-5.10.1 interpreter into my mips-linux
platform ,but I can¡¯t make it.

My host is i386-linux.

I am following the instructions in perl-5.10.1/Cross/README​:

1) You should be reading me (README) in perl-5.x.y/Cross

2) Make sure you are in the Cross directory.

3) Edit the file 'config' to contain your target platform information.

4) make patch ## This will patch the existing source-tree.

5) make perl ## Will make perl

First I changed ¡®config¡¯ like this​:

### Target Arch

#ARCH = arm

#ARCH = i386-pc

#ARCH = sh4

ARCH = mips

#ARCH = mipsel

#ARCH = ppc

## Specific arm

#CONFIG_TARGET_ARM_SA11X0 = 1

#CONFIG_TARGET_ARM_XSCALE = 1

### Target OS

OS = linux

#OS = solaris2.8

Then enter the command​: make patch, but it failed like this​:

  ¡­¡­

patching file Makefile.SH

Reversed (or previously applied) patch detected! Assume -R? [n] y

Hunk #1 succeeded at 160 (offset 31 lines).

Hunk #2 FAILED at 420.

Hunk #3 FAILED at 432.

Hunk #4 FAILED at 610.

Hunk #5 FAILED at 618.

Hunk #6 succeeded at 954 with fuzz 1 (offset 200 lines).

Hunk #7 FAILED at 963.

Hunk #8 FAILED at 1037.

Hunk #9 FAILED at 1150.

Hunk #10 FAILED at 1301.

Hunk #11 FAILED at 1414.

9 out of 11 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file Makefile.SH.rej

missing header for unified diff at line 3 of patch

patching file installperl

Hunk #1 FAILED at 3.

Hunk #2 FAILED at 946.

2 out of 2 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file installperl.rej

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Is there anything wrong?
Or anything I missed?

JIan Zhou

Thanks,

From @jkeenan

On Fri Oct 22 01​:18​:11 2010, jian_zhou@​realsil.com.cn wrote​:

Hello, I�m trying to porting perl-5.10.1 interpreter into my mips-linux
platform ,but I can�t make it.

My host is i386-linux.

I am following the instructions in perl-5.10.1/Cross/README​:

1) You should be reading me (README) in perl-5.x.y/Cross

2) Make sure you are in the Cross directory.

3) Edit the file 'config' to contain your target platform
information.

4) make patch ## This will patch the existing source-tree.

5) make perl ## Will make perl

First I changed â��configâ�� like this​:

### Target Arch

#ARCH = arm

#ARCH = i386-pc

#ARCH = sh4

ARCH = mips

#ARCH = mipsel

#ARCH = ppc

## Specific arm

#CONFIG_TARGET_ARM_SA11X0 = 1

#CONFIG_TARGET_ARM_XSCALE = 1

### Target OS

OS = linux

#OS = solaris2.8

Then enter the command​: make patch, but it failed like this​:

     ��

patching file Makefile.SH

Reversed (or previously applied) patch detected! Assume -R? [n] y

Hunk #1 succeeded at 160 (offset 31 lines).

Hunk #2 FAILED at 420.

Hunk #3 FAILED at 432.

Hunk #4 FAILED at 610.

Hunk #5 FAILED at 618.

Hunk #6 succeeded at 954 with fuzz 1 (offset 200 lines).

Hunk #7 FAILED at 963.

Hunk #8 FAILED at 1037.

Hunk #9 FAILED at 1150.

Hunk #10 FAILED at 1301.

Hunk #11 FAILED at 1414.

9 out of 11 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file Makefile.SH.rej

missing header for unified diff at line 3 of patch

patching file installperl

Hunk #1 FAILED at 3.

Hunk #2 FAILED at 946.

2 out of 2 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file installperl.rej

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Is there anything wrong?
Or anything I missed?

This seems more like an everyday failure in using 'patch'. Have you
subsequently been able to complete the cross-compilation?

JIan Zhou

List​: This ticket was filed more than 2-1/2 years ago, but never
attracted a response. Can someone take a look and see if you spot
obvious errors?

Thank you very much.
Jim Keenan

The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

From @dcollinsn

For what it's worth, make patch also (still?) fails for me when making the changes described by the OP. I do suspect this is a case of bitrot, as the patches no longer cleanly apply to the base files.

I may look into this more later, when I'm not SSHing from my phone, but at minimum this is confirmed, and I intend to find or create a meta-ticket for cross compilation issues.

--
Respectfully,
Dan Collins