OpenEmbedded/Yocto Project layer for CPAN modules

This layer provides support for modules to enhance the Perl programming Language for Open Embedded and Yocto Project build systems.

This layer requires few additions to poky maintained in

URI: https://github.com/rehsack/poky branch: master revision: HEAD

Contributing:

You can submit Pull Requests via GitHub.

Please refer to: https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Contribution_Guidelines#General_Information

for some useful guidelines to be followed when submitting patches.

Usage instructions

bblayers.conf:

At the very moment, the external tooling via Packager::Utils, rely on following:

BBPATH = "${TOPDIR}"
BSPDIR := "${@os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(d.getVar('FILE', True)) + '/../..')}"

BBLAYERS = "...\
${BSPDIR}/sources/meta-cpan \
"