[openbox] Porting openbox to Beaglebone/ARM7a/OMAP35xx: Perl ?

[meino.cramer at gmx.de]

Hi,

I am currently trying to compile openbox on a Beaglebone, which
is a ARM7a AM3359 platform.

I installed Perl with multithreading support.

The output:

>perl --version
This is perl 5, version 14, subversion 2 (v5.14.2) built for armv7l-linux-thread-multi


When calling the ./bootsrap script which is contained in the archive
openbox-3.5.0_p20111019.tar.gz

it reports the following:
beaglebone:NFS/op>./bootstrap 
+ autopoint --force
Copying file ABOUT-NLS
Copying file config.rpath
Copying file m4/codeset.m4
Copying file m4/gettext.m4
Copying file m4/glibc2.m4
Copying file m4/glibc21.m4
Copying file m4/iconv.m4
Copying file m4/intdiv0.m4
Copying file m4/intmax.m4
Copying file m4/inttypes-h.m4
Copying file m4/inttypes-pri.m4
Copying file m4/inttypes_h.m4
Copying file m4/lcmessage.m4
Copying file m4/lib-ld.m4
Copying file m4/lib-link.m4
Copying file m4/lib-prefix.m4
Copying file m4/lock.m4
Copying file m4/longdouble.m4
Copying file m4/longlong.m4
Copying file m4/nls.m4
Copying file m4/po.m4
Copying file m4/printf-posix.m4
Copying file m4/progtest.m4
Copying file m4/signed.m4
Copying file m4/size_max.m4
Copying file m4/stdint_h.m4
Copying file m4/uintmax_t.m4
Copying file m4/ulonglong.m4
Copying file m4/visibility.m4
Copying file m4/wchar_t.m4
Copying file m4/wint_t.m4
Copying file m4/xsize.m4
Copying file po/Makefile.in.in
Copying file po/Makevars.template
Copying file po/Rules-quot
Copying file po/boldquot.sed
Copying file po/en at boldquot.header
Copying file po/en at quot.header
Copying file po/insert-header.sin
Copying file po/quot.sed
Copying file po/remove-potcdate.sin
+ libtoolize --copy --force --automake
+ aclocal -I m4
This Perl not built to support threads
Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/automake-1.11/Automake/ChannelDefs.pm line 24.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/automake-1.11/Automake/ChannelDefs.pm line 27.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/automake-1.11/Automake/Configure_ac.pm line 26.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/automake-1.11/Automake/Configure_ac.pm line 26.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/bin/aclocal line 40.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/bin/aclocal line 40.
[1]    371 exit 1     ./bootstrap


Now, bootstrap states that perl has no thread support.



Since compiling perl on that platform is a long running task (and in
the meanwhile I did quite a few of them...) I am trying to figure out
how to circumvent the problems I have with this...

Any help with this is very appreciated ! :)

Thank you very much in advance!


Best regards,
mcc