[OE-core] [PATCH] xkeyboard-config: this is architecture-indepedent, so set PACKAGE_ARCH

Otavio Salvador otavio at ossystems.com.br
Tue Feb 26 20:52:58 UTC 2013


On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 5:44 PM, Burton, Ross <ross.burton at intel.com> wrote:
> On 26 February 2013 19:43, Richard Purdie
> <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>> Check exactly what is in configure.ac. You should be able to use allarch
>> and if you can't, it means the configure script is referencing the
>> compiler, even if it shouldn't be using it. Its designed such that these
>> accesses fail verbosely. It should be a simple fix if the recipe really
>> is just configuration.
>
> | configure:2707: checking host system type
> | configure:2716: error: /bin/bash ./config.sub allarch-poky-linux failed
>
> The configure.ac ends up running AC_CANONICAL_HOST because it uses
> different manpage sections for Solaris and everything else.
>
> I think they should be using AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM, but that calls
> AC_CANONICAL_HOST anyway so that wouldn't achieve anything.
>
> So, extend my patch, or intrusively patch out the documentation build
> code in xkeyboard-config.

I'd say to drop the AC_CANONICAL_HOST call and make it fake Linux as a
fixed value.

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