perlPackages: Add cross-compilation support.

This involved:

* Installing miniperl as $dev/bin/perl
* Setting miniperl to take INC from
  lib/perl5/{site_perl/,}cross_perl/${version} as well as
  lib/perl5/{site_perl/,}/${version}/${runtimeArch}, in that
  order. miniperl taking from runtimeArch is not really correct, but
  it works in some pure-perl cases (e.g. Config.pm) and can be
  overridden with the cross_perl variant.
* Installing perl-cross's stubs into
  $dev/lib/perl5/cross_perl/${version}
* Patching MakeMaker.pm to gracefully degrade (very slightly) if B.pm
  can't be loaded, which it can't in cross-compilation.
* Passing the right build-time and runtime perls to Makefile.PL
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Shea Levy
2018-02-28 15:01:32 -05:00
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@@ -177,5 +177,18 @@ you need it.</para>
</section>
<section xml:id="ssec-perl-cross-compilation"><title>Cross-compiling modules</title>
<para>Nixpkgs has experimental support for cross-compiling Perl
modules. In many cases, it will just work out of the box, even for
modules with native extensions. Sometimes, however, the Makefile.PL
for a module may (indirectly) import a native module. In that case,
you will need to make a stub for that module that will satisfy the
Makefile.PL and install it into
<filename>lib/perl5/site_perl/cross_perl/${perl.version}</filename>.
</para>
</section>
</section>