Hi everybody!

At the moment myself and some other ppl are working on getting Gentoo on
the Openmoko Freerunner. Thanks to TuXXX and crossdev i was able to get
a basic build toolchain with glibc-2.7, gcc-4.3 and binutils-2.18 up and
running quite fast. Till now i was able to cross-compile almost
everything most things needed extra care (i have quite a huge overlay
for crosscompiling packages by now but i don't want to release it just
yet because i want to clean things up a bit before i'll let somebody
else see this). The only thing i'm still fighting with (something i
wanted to merge earlier but wasn't able to convince it to compile so i
pushed it back but now i need it for enlightenment) is perl (and thus
libperl). The first time i tried it wasn't even able to get over the
configuration hurdle (damn i HATE this hand-written pita-configure
script of perl) but with my second try i decided to have a look at how
they are doing it at openembedded (did you realize that
openembedded-bitbake files look almost the same as ebuilds?) and i was
able to make some progress. Now it starts to compile, it uses my
build-hosts' perl-executable to compile the perl-stuff... But sooner or
later the build always fails. The first problem i hit was that if i
don't comment out the following lines in
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/x86_64-linux/Errno.pm the build fails with the
given error message:

"$Config{'archname'}-$Config{'osvers'}" eq
"x86_64-linux-2.6.25-hh1" or
       die "Errno architecture (x86_64-linux-2.6.25-hh1) does not match
executable architecture ($Config{'archname'}-$Config{'osvers'})";

When i comment these three lines build goes a bit further but failes
with the following error message afterards:

Making Filter::Util::Call (dynamic)
Writing Makefile for Filter::Util::Call
make[2]: Entering directory
`/root/openmoko/tmp/portage/sys-devel/libperl-5.8.8-r2/work/perl-5.8.8/ext/Filter/Util/Call'
Can't load '../../../../lib/auto/File/Glob/Glob.so' for module
File::Glob: ../../../../lib/auto/File/Glob/Glob.so: wrong ELF class:
ELFCLASS32 at ../../../../lib/XSLoader.pm line 70.
 at ../../../../lib/File/Glob.pm line 96
Compilation failed in require at ../../../../lib/ExtUtils/Command.pm
line 61.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ../../../../lib/ExtUtils/Command.pm
line 61.
Compilation failed in require.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted.
make[2]: *** [../../../../lib/Filter/Util/.exists] Error 9

The steps i tried are the same as mentioned in the README-file in the
Cross-Subdirectory of the unpacked perl-tarball:

unpack it (plus do some additional patching) using portage
execute make patch and make perl manually (i want to make it work
manually before i actually try to make it work using portage...)

I guess the error message means that something is linked against Glob.so
that should not be linked against it. What kinda wonders me is the fact
that it's complaining about ELFCLASS32 but if i am correct the
arm-processor uses a 32-bit architecture?? If it would complain about
ELFCLASS64 i would know what the problem is, it linked something against
my build-hosts libs.

Anyway maybe I'll attach my config-file for perl, maybe somebody else is
able to make sense of all this and enlighten me.

Thanks in advance,

Christoph