Full Perl packages avail for testing

Good timing. I was just thinking about this this morning. I was trying to figure out how to use Kismet::Client and Net::Kismet with microperl.

Works great on WRTSL54GS. Took a bit of trail and error to get just the right batch of the modules installed.
I needed the newer Math::Trig and Math::Complex so I just copied CPAN over frol's.

http://gpsd.davisnetworks.com/bin/view/ … tWRTSL54GS

Thanks!
Mike

Well I rebuilt Perl using the package files above, and the whiterussian RC5 SDK.  Rather than reinstall the packages, I just tarred and copied over the whole output directory.  Things seem to be working now . . . sort of.  I need more modules.  : )

Problem concerning Perl, and not strictly OpenWrt.
I installed frol's Perl on WRT54GL with WhiteRussian and works great.
I am trying now to install it on Compex WP54 main board (so under Kamikaze)

At first Perl didn't work.
On WRT54GL i had both usr/bin/perl5.8.7 and usr/bin/perl files (I think the second to be just a link). But on WP54 I had just /usr/bin/perl5.8.7. So I typed

root@OpenWrt:~# cd /usr/bin/
root@OpenWrt:/usr/bin# ln perl5.8.7 perl

And Perl now works right.
I installed also the following modules:

perlbase-autoloader - 5.8.7-1 -
perlbase-config - 5.8.7-1 -
perlbase-cpan - 5.8.7-1 -
perlbase-dynaloader - 5.8.7-1 -
perlbase-errno - 5.8.7-1 -
perlbase-essential - 5.8.7-1 -
perlbase-getopt - 5.8.7-1 -
perlbase-io - 5.8.7-1 -
perlbase-selectsaver - 5.8.7-1 -
perlbase-socket - 5.8.7-1 -
perlbase-symbol - 5.8.7-1 -
perlbase-time - 5.8.7-1 -
perlbase-xsloader - 5.8.7-1 -

But they seem not to work, because I am getting errors like:

Can't locate loadable object for module Time::HiRes in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/5.8 .) at FILE_NAME line 13

I am a newbie of Perl, I would like to know how Perl loads its modules. Maybe it would be enough for me to solve my problem.
Thanks

Well, it was a kernel problem!

I have managed to compile the owperl-module (a part of OWFS) with your perl packages.

The owfs and perl-packages are available at: http://owfs.sourceforge.net/openwrt/packages
if someone wants to try it.  (I have only tried it on a WRT54G with whiterussian 0.9.)

root@repeater3:~# ipkg install owfs

root@repeater3:~# ipkg install owperl
Installing owperl (2.6p5-14) to root...
Downloading http://home.mag.cx/openwrt/packages/./owperl_2.6p5-14_mipsel.ipk
Installing perl (5.8.7-1) to root...
Downloading http://home.mag.cx/openwrt/packages/./perl_5.8.7-1_mipsel.ipk
Installing perlbase-autoloader (5.8.7-1) to root...
Downloading http://home.mag.cx/openwrt/packages/./perlbase-autoloader_5.8.7-1_mipsel.ipk
Installing perlbase-config (5.8.7-1) to root...
Downloading http://home.mag.cx/openwrt/packages/./perlbase-config_5.8.7-1_mipsel.ipk
Installing perlbase-dynaloader (5.8.7-1) to root...
Downloading http://home.mag.cx/openwrt/packages/./perlbase-dynaloader_5.8.7-1_mipsel.ipk
Installing perlbase-essential (5.8.7-1) to root...
Downloading http://home.mag.cx/openwrt/packages/./perlbase-essential_5.8.7-1_mipsel.ipk
Installing perlbase-io (5.8.7-1) to root...
Downloading http://home.mag.cx/openwrt/packages/./perlbase-io_5.8.7-1_mipsel.ipk
Configuring owperl
Configuring perl
Configuring perlbase-autoloader
Configuring perlbase-config
Configuring perlbase-dynaloader
Configuring perlbase-essential
Configuring perlbase-io
Successfully terminated.
root@repeater3:~#


root@repeater3:~# echo 'OPTIONS="-p 3002 --fake 28 --fake 10"' >> /etc/default/owserver
root@repeater3:~# run-owfs
Using /lib/modules/2.4.30/fuse.o
root@repeater3:~# cat test1.pl 
#!/usr/bin/perl

use OW;
print "Version: ".OW::version."\n";
print OW::init("localhost:3002")."\n";
print "dir: ".OW::get("/")."\n";
print OW::get("10.67C6697351FF/temperature")."\n";
OW::finish();

root@repeater3:~# ./test1.pl 
Version: 2.6p5
1
dir: structure/,bus.0/,uncached/,settings/,system/,statistics/,28.4AEC29CDBAAB/,10.67C6697351FF/,alarm/,simultaneous/
     36.4784
root@repeater3:~#

Thanks for the help with the perl-package!

/Christian

Do you have any Makefiles for Kamikaze that I could use?

/Christian

Just a quick note regarding perl packages for kamikaze...

For whiterussian, I had previously ported frol's perl makefiles (2006-03-20)
to the new buildroot, and introduced a preliminary dependency scanning
mechanism to generate proper dependencies for the perlbase-* packages and
third-party CPAN module packages.

Now that others have already been successful[1] in compiling perl for kamikaze
using my adjusted makefiles, I added support for all architectures currently
in kamikaze. Thus, perl packages are no longer not only available for mipsel,
but also for armeb, mips, powerpc and i386 (and arm, once a prebuilt kamikaze
SDK is released for this arch).

Lacking time and hardware, I have not tested these packages[2] yet, so all
reports on success or failure are welcome. Please note that the dependencies
between perlbase-* packages might be a little too strict in a few cases
(especially regarding perlbase-unicore), so a little experimentation with
"ipkg -force-depends" might be helpful to save space.

For building your own custom CPAN module packages, have a look at the existing
perl-* module packages in my source tree[3], which can be checked out with
darcs[4].

Peter

[1] http://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=10117
[2] http://www.cip.ifi.lmu.de/~colberg/openwrt/bin/
[3] http://www.cip.ifi.lmu.de/~colberg/openwrt/packages/
[4] http://darcs.net/

I think you should modify your files/config.sh-*-linux-uclibc.in files and make sure they really works under 2.6-kernels.
I guess you have used the makefiles under http://www.cip.ifi.lmu.de/~colberg/open … erl/files/ , and I doubt they will work correctly according to some old posts. (Look at http://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=10944 )

Some math-functions doesn't work under mipsel 2.6-kernels. You should really look more into the "fpossize" variable and think if size "24" in config.sh-mipsel-linux-uclibc.in is a good value. When I changed this to "4" + changed u32align, the math-functions seemed to work correctly.
d_u32align='define'
fpossize='4'

The Time:HiRes module need some config-vars to be defined, since it tries to compile, link and run some test-programs to verify existence of nanosleep() for example, and it doesn't work while cross-compiling perl.
# Fix problem with HiRes timer.
d_nanosleep='define'
d_clock_gettime='define'
d_clock_getres='define'
d_clock_nanosleep='define'
d_clock='define'

I can't promise these change will be good for all platforms, but I hope you could change and verify it for mipsel at least.

/Christian

First of all, a big thanks to frol and peterco for doing the great work on getting perl on OpenWrt.

I needed to get IPv6 multicast working in OpenWrt, so I've done the legwork to create the necessary packages.
Binaries and patches (packages):
http://www.cs.drexel.edu/~ib29/dev/openwrt/

I've tested this on whiterussian, but not kamikaze yet.  Any comments welcome.

Hi,

i succesfully builded perl for kamikaze from petercos sources. But I got into trouble after that.
Now the perl-scripts from kamikazes build system use the new builded host-perl, not my system-perl anymore.
The Problem is that the environment of the host-perl is corrupted and searches for modules in /usr/local/lib/perl...
When I add "-Dprefix=$(STAGING_DIR)/usr" to  the Configure options in Stage 1, the host-perl searches for
its modules in $(STAGING_DIR)/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/... .
This is wrong too, the modules are actually installed in $(STAGING_DIR)/usr/lib/perl5/5.8/...
Is there a way to fix that or to prevent kamikaze from using the new builded host-perl?

Regards,
Marcel

First of all I should say thanks to everyone that has gotten this working.  I really needed a full featured perl in OpenWRT but had no idea how to get it to build by myself, so this has been a lifesaver.

I've run into a problem recently:  I had this package building fine on the kamikaze 7.09 release, but I have had to switch to the development trunk to get support for some platforms that were unavailable in 7.09.  I can't get this package to build in the current trunk buildroot.

Is there any plan to incorporate this package into kamikaze in addition to microperl?  Or does anyone have patches or an updated Makefile that will allow it to build from the current trunk?

Thanks,
Ben