[OE-core] [PATCH] autotools: Remove special handling for autoconf* and automake*

Chris Larson clarson at kergoth.com
Sat Sep 22 18:58:37 UTC 2012


On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 9:18 AM, Phil Blundell <philb at gnu.org> wrote:
> For reasons that are now shrouded in obscurity, autotools.bbclass
> has long contained a special heuristic to avoid attempting to run
> autoreconf when building autoconf or automake themselves.  However,
> the wildcard test against PN which is used there is problematic when
> trying to build another package whose name happens to start with
> "autoconf", and in any case it is silly to do this test at runtime
> for every package.  The individual recipes for autoconf and automake
> can just as easily suppress the behaviour that they don't want by
> providing a custom do_configure() method which just runs configure.
>
> Signed-off-by: Phil Blundell <pb at pbcl.net>

Nice.

Signed-off-by: Christopher Larson <chris_larson at mentor.com>
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Christopher Larson




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