[OE-core] [PATCH] connman: fix build with automake 1.12

Burton, Ross ross.burton at intel.com
Thu Jul 12 21:17:23 UTC 2012


On 11 July 2012 23:00, Colin Walters <walters at verbum.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-07-11 at 16:39 +0100, Ross Burton wrote:
>
>> +     # Automake 1.12 won't install empty directories, but we need the
>> +     # plugins directory to be present for ownership
>> +     mkdir -p ${D}${libdir}/connman/plugins
>>  }
>
> Did you consider patching upstream to do this in install-data-local
> rule?  That way everyone gets the fix (Debian/Gentoo/Fedora etc.), not
> just you.

Yes, and I also considered that this surely can't be restricted to
connman and automake should have some clean way of forcing an empty
directory to exist.  I'm also pretty certain the automake maintainers
response would be "do it in install-data-local", so this should go to
connman...

Ross




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