[OE-core] [PATCH 00/40] mostly automake 1.12 related fixes

[Richard Purdie]

On Wed, 2012-05-09 at 16:29 -0700, Saul Wold wrote:
> On 05/04/2012 02:30 PM, nitin.a.kamble at intel.com wrote:
> > From: Nitin A Kamble<nitin.a.kamble at intel.com>
> >
> > With the automake upgrade to 1.12 many recipes started failing due to
> > use of deprecated features. This commit series addresses many of those
> > recipes.
> >
> >
> > The following changes since commit 7f11bbb9bbc55001928bec799a39a32e9fa85659:
> >
> >    bitbake: Fixup bitbake-selftest (2012-05-04 17:41:47 +0100)
> >
> > are available in the git repository at:
> >    git://git.pokylinux.org/poky-contrib nitin/automake-1.12_related_fixes
> >    http://git.pokylinux.org/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/log/?h=nitin/automake-1.12_related_fixes
> >
> > Nitin A Kamble (40):
> >    guile: upgrade from 2.0.3 to 2.0.5
> Merged the guile update in, the reset are still pending.
> 
> Please break it up into build fixes and automake fixes.

The build fixes are related to automake. I think this new automake fixes
broken behaviour in previous versions which left empty directories
around.

The question is whether we go through the metadata and remove the rmdir
of empty directories or make it conditional. I'm tempted just to remove
them if we no longer need them. Our packaging checks will make sure we
notice if the problem comes back again.

Cheers,

Richard