JROBINSON grant report #10, #11

I have now built a perl 5.17.4, compiled the results into an Android 
package (.apk) and tried it out on my device. This lead me to notice that 
I wasn't building the shared libraries correctly, so I went back and added 
"android" to the list of osnames that need '-Wl,-E' as their ccdlflags.

I may end up doing this in a number of places (I need to re-check all the 
parts of Configure that set things based on "$osname") - Are these also 
just true for compiler == gcc? Or is that too simple? I shall attempt to 
list them and ask here..

Having fixed the shared libraries (which made IO/IO.so not load), I went 
on to do a bit of java poking to try and get perl-android-apk to capture 
its STDOUT/STDERR somewhere. Didn't succeed last week, but I did get them 
reopened to files at the Perl level, and can run at least one of the main 
tests.

In week #10 I discovered that I hadn't yet quite fixed the header file 
discovery to look in the compiler's sysroot, fixed this by having $userinc 
prepend $sysroot if set. I also ported over my Errno_pm.PL changs that 
look for errno.h in $sysroot if available.

Next I will try and get harness to run all the tests (it may work if I 
have it run the same perl binary that it's being run with - $^X). Then 
back to tidying up / making actual patches for Configure and pals.

Summary
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4:15h Header file location finding and Errno_pm.PL fixed.
6:00h Testing cross-built perl on Android

Jess

• JROBINSON grant report #10, #11 by Jess Robinson