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

[Kumar Gala]

On Aug 2, 2011, at 10:34 AM, Tom Rini wrote:

> 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? :)

I think I pulled that from the SB3 change you made.

- k