[OE-core] [PATCH 1/1] libgcrypt: fix compile error with '-O2' in sysroot path

Burton, Ross ross.burton at intel.com
Tue Dec 10 11:40:02 UTC 2013


On 10 December 2013 11:37, Richard Purdie
<richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>> I thought it would do no harm. And I will send this patch to upstream,
>> so it might be a little strange that I only modify the Makefile.am file
>> even if Makefile.in has the same problem.
>
> It can actually be harmful since the modification time of Makefile.in
> can be after the time for Makefile.am and things can go "very wrong"
> with autotools when that happens :(

Another good reason not to modify the Makefile.in is that being a
generated file, updating automake can change how it is generated, so
the patch doesn't apply anymore.

Ross



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