[OE-core] [PATCH] automake: Fix issue with tar configure failing with large UID/GIDs

[Tom Rini]

On 08/02/2011 08:19 AM, Phil Blundell wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-08-02 at 03:14 -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
>> +-_am_tools='gnutar m4_if([$1], [ustar], [plaintar]) pax cpio none'
>> ++_am_tools='gnutar m4_if([$1], [ustar], [plaintar]) cpio pax none'
> 
> Have you discussed that with upstream?  If not, are you confident that
> preferring cpio will not simply mean that we are swapping one deficiency
> for another?

A bug was filed with upstream automake.  At issue is that pax does not
fail gracefully when it cannot create ustar archives while cpio does.

>> +Index: automake-1.11.1/Makefile.in
>> +===================================================================
>> +--- automake-1.11.1.orig/Makefile.in
>> ++++ automake-1.11.1/Makefile.in
>> +@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ am__aclocal_m4_deps = $(top_srcdir)/m4/a
>> + 	$(top_srcdir)/m4/missing.m4 $(top_srcdir)/m4/mkdirp.m4 \
>> + 	$(top_srcdir)/m4/options.m4 $(top_srcdir)/m4/runlog.m4 \
>> + 	$(top_srcdir)/m4/sanity.m4 $(top_srcdir)/m4/strip.m4 \
>> +-	$(top_srcdir)/m4/substnot.m4 $(top_srcdir)/m4/tar.m4 \
>> ++	$(top_srcdir)/m4/substnot.m4 \
>> + 	$(top_srcdir)/configure.ac
>> + am__configure_deps = $(am__aclocal_m4_deps) $(CONFIGURE_DEPENDENCIES) \
>> + 	$(ACLOCAL_M4)
> 
> Can you explain why this hunk is necessary?

That I don't recall.  Possibly some sort of re-gen hell I was trying /
needing to avoid.

> 
>> +do_configure () {
>> +	touch ${S}/Makefile.in
>> +	autotools_do_configure
>> +}
> 
> ... and this one?

Didn't do that one.  Kumar? :)

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Tom Rini
Mentor Graphics Corporation