packages/lang/perl/Makefile, branch master

perl: install libperl.so using $(INSTALL_BIN) to enable stripping

2026-06-08T14:41:45Z

Install libperl.so with executable permissions (0755) instead of copying it as-is. This allows the OpenWrt build system to recognize the library as a binary and automatically run the "strip" utility on it. Stripping removes unnecessary debugging metadata and helper symbols that are only needed for development but not for running Perl on the router. This change reduces the installed size of libperl.so on the device: - Before (not stripped): 3.7 MB (3,929,652 bytes) ``` root@turris:~# file /usr/lib/perl5/5.40/CORE/libperl.so /usr/lib/perl5/5.40/CORE/libperl.so: ELF 32-bit MSB shared object, PowerPC or cisco 4500, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, with debug_info, not stripped ``` - After (stripped): 3.5 MB (3,674,081 bytes) ``` root@turris:~# file /usr/lib/perl5/5.40/CORE/libperl.so /usr/lib/perl5/5.40/CORE/libperl.so: ELF 32-bit MSB shared object, PowerPC or cisco 4500, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, no section header ``` Saving ~255 KB of flash storage space on target devices. Signed-off-by: Josef Schlehofer

perl: fix miniperl missing execute permission (CI fix)

2026-05-20T17:09:52Z

On some build systems, the miniperl binary is created without execute permission (errno 126 when running it as /bin/sh). This breaks building the mro extension and cascades to all dependent packages. Fix by ensuring chmod +x on miniperl after the main build step. This matches how many other build systems handle this same issue. Signed-off-by: Alexandru Ardelean

perl: fix missing line numbers in error messages

2026-05-20T13:22:53Z

There were some type definitions missing in architecture.config, that caused perl to return '%' instead of actual line numbers. Fixes: https://github.com/openwrt/packages/issues/25912 Signed-off-by: Jens Wagner

treewide: cleanup URLs

2026-05-08T20:28:27Z

This commit converts plain HTTP URLs to HTTPS, and updates old or outdated URLs. Signed-off-by: Yanase Yuki

perlbase-encode: added dependency on perlbase-storable

2026-01-22T20:02:25Z

The Encode module uses the Storable module. Signed-off-by: Jens Wagner

treewide: fix spelling and grammar in Makefiles

2025-12-31T07:12:36Z

Fix spelling and grammar in package definitions, configs, comments and other strings. Signed-off-by: George Sapkin

perl: adjust with glibc and libcrypt-compat

2025-07-14T08:40:15Z

glibc 2.39 has removed libcrypt completely. solution: link against libxcrypt built with glibc compatibility. Signed-off-by: Konstantin Demin

perl: fix parallel build race condition in target build

2025-05-05T09:20:38Z

We have received reports of builds of perl occasionally failing when building with many parallel jobs, with a log like the following: LD_LIBRARY_PATH=[...]/perl/perl-5.40.0 ./miniperl -Ilib make_ext.pl \ dist/constant/pm_to_blib MAKE="make" LIBPERL_A=libperl.so File/Path.pm did not return a true value at [...]/hostpkg/usr/lib/perl5/5.40.0/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm line 13. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at [...]/hostpkg/usr/lib/perl5/5.40.0/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm line 13. Compilation failed in require at Makefile.PL line 3. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at Makefile.PL line 3. Unsuccessful Makefile.PL(dist/constant): code=65280 at make_ext.pl line 532. The failing extension (dist/constant in the above log) would differ between runs. The cause of the issue is the `-Ilib` in the command line of miniperl. In the host build, `./miniperl -I lib` will use the following include path: [..]/build_dir/hostpkg/perl/perl-5.40.0/cpan/AutoLoader/lib [..]/build_dir/hostpkg/perl/perl-5.40.0/dist/Carp/lib [..]/build_dir/hostpkg/perl/perl-5.40.0/dist/PathTools [..]/build_dir/hostpkg/perl/perl-5.40.0/dist/PathTools/lib [..]/build_dir/hostpkg/perl/perl-5.40.0/cpan/ExtUtils-Install/lib [..]/build_dir/hostpkg/perl/perl-5.40.0/cpan/ExtUtils-MakeMaker/lib [..]/build_dir/hostpkg/perl/perl-5.40.0/cpan/ExtUtils-Manifest/lib [..]/build_dir/hostpkg/perl/perl-5.40.0/cpan/File-Path/lib [..]/build_dir/hostpkg/perl/perl-5.40.0/ext/re [..]/build_dir/hostpkg/perl/perl-5.40.0/dist/Term-ReadLine/lib [..]/build_dir/hostpkg/perl/perl-5.40.0/dist/Exporter/lib [..]/build_dir/hostpkg/perl/perl-5.40.0/ext/File-Find/lib [..]/build_dir/hostpkg/perl/perl-5.40.0/cpan/Text-Tabs/lib [..]/build_dir/hostpkg/perl/perl-5.40.0/dist/constant/lib [..]/build_dir/hostpkg/perl/perl-5.40.0/cpan/version/lib [..]/build_dir/hostpkg/perl/perl-5.40.0/cpan/Getopt-Long/lib [..]/build_dir/hostpkg/perl/perl-5.40.0/cpan/Text-ParseWords/lib [..]/build_dir/hostpkg/perl/perl-5.40.0/cpan/ExtUtils-PL2Bat/lib [..]/build_dir/hostpkg/perl/perl-5.40.0/lib . Various dependencies of the extension build scripts (Makefile.PL) - including File-Path, which failed to be loaded in the error log - are included in the path by buildcustomize.pl, as these extensions are only installed to `lib` as the build proceeds. However, in a target build, miniperl is just a symlink to the previously built host perl. As the host perl does not implicitly load `buildcustomize.pl`, we get the following include path for `./miniperl -Ilib`: lib [..]/staging_dir/hostpkg/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.40.0/x86_64-linux [..]/staging_dir/hostpkg/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.40.0 [..]/staging_dir/hostpkg/usr/lib/perl5/5.40.0/x86_64-linux [..]/staging_dir/hostpkg/usr/lib/perl5/5.40.0 The host perl's install location is used as the default include path which provides File-Path etc. for the target build; however, as more and more libraries get installed into `lib` during the extension build, they may get loaded from there instead, as `lib` is at the beginning of the include path. When multiple extensions are built in parallel, a Makefile.PL may attempt to load File/Path from `lib` after the file has been created, but before its contents have been written fully, resulting in the build to fail. In fact, we should not load anything from `lib` during the target build, as it is the staging directory for the target, including native extensions built for the target architecture - with one exception: The build scripts expect to find target information in the `Config` module, so simply removing `lib` from the include path completely would break the build. Solve the issue by creating an alternative lib directory `lib_build`, symlinking `Config.pm` and its dependencies in it, and replacing the `-Ilib` argument with `-Ilib_build` using a wrapper script around the host perl executable. This is similar to the approach seen in perl's own obsolete/broken cross compile scripts (`Cross/Makefile`). Signed-off-by: Matthias Schiffer

perl: Run make depend to fix build race condition

2024-07-28T21:53:19Z

Run make depend before building perl. This fixes parallel build failures on machines with a high number of cores. Example error 1: /bin/ln -s /build/staging_dir/hostpkg/usr/bin/generate_uudmap generate_uidmap make[5]: ./generate_uudmap: Command not found make[5]: *** [Makefile:321: bitcount.h] Error 127 Example error 2: /bin/ln -s /build/staging_dir/hostpkg/usr/bin/generate_uudmap generate_udmap ./generate_uudmap uudmap.h bitcount.h mg_data.h /bin/ln: failed to create symbolic link 'generate_uudmap': File exists make[5]: *** [Makefile:325: generate_uudmap] Error 1 Link: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=996953 Link: https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/interpreter/perl/-/commit/366bc98c916a3455f15c532aa33a5636d2fe2803 Closes: https://github.com/openwrt/packages/issues/8238 Signed-off-by: Andreas Gnau

perl: fix Segmentation fault

2024-07-23T01:48:26Z

Signed-off-by: Esaaprilia Salsabila