From: Saul Wold <Saul.Wold@windriver.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2022 20:12:34 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: perl: Enable threading
X-Git-Tag: lucaceresoli/bug-15201-perf-libtraceevent-missing~5599
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b9fd7cd319a1d8f0ddf5ea60710b015e9afb588c;p=thirdparty%2Fopenembedded%2Fopenembedded-core-contrib.git

perl: Enable threading

When the tranisiton to perl-cross occured, the threading define
seems to have been missed.  The perl tests for threading where
simply skipped, so there was no direct failures.  This was verified
by running perl ptest before and after the change to see PASS vs SKIP
results of threaded related tests.

NOTE: Perl officially discourges the use of threads, so this
functionality maybe depercated in the future [0][1]

v2: adds the usethreads to native and nativesdk. This was tested by
builing postresql and rrdtool which use perl and automake.

[0] https://perldoc.perl.org/5.34.0-RC2/threads#WARNING
[1] https://perldoc.perl.org/perlpolicy#discouraged

Signed-off-by: Saul Wold <saul.wold@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
---

diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/perl_5.34.0.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/perl_5.34.0.bb
index a6ae80f07e1..e4bcfe3ce69 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/perl_5.34.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/perl_5.34.0.bb
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ do_configure:class-target() {
     ./configure --prefix=${prefix} --libdir=${libdir} \
     --target=${TARGET_SYS} \
     -Duseshrplib \
+    -Dusethreads \
     -Dsoname=libperl.so.5 \
     -Dvendorprefix=${prefix} \
     -Darchlibexp=${STAGING_LIBDIR}/perl5/${PV}/${TARGET_ARCH}-linux \
@@ -80,6 +81,7 @@ do_configure:class-nativesdk() {
     ./configure --prefix=${prefix} \
     --target=${TARGET_SYS} \
     -Duseshrplib \
+    -Dusethreads \
     -Dsoname=libperl.so.5 \
     -Dvendorprefix=${prefix} \
     -Darchlibexp=${STAGING_LIBDIR}/perl5/${PV}/${TARGET_ARCH}-linux \
@@ -94,6 +96,7 @@ do_configure:class-native() {
     ./configure --prefix=${prefix} \
     -Dbin=${bindir}/perl-native \
     -Duseshrplib \
+    -Dusethreads \
     -Dsoname=libperl.so.5 \
     -Dvendorprefix=${prefix} \
     -Ui_xlocale \