[OE-core] Prepare recipes for automake-1.13 (batch 1)

Marko Lindqvist cazfi74 at gmail.com
Fri Jan 4 22:42:22 UTC 2013


On 5 January 2013 00:21, Saul Wold <sgw at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> On 01/03/2013 12:36 PM, Marko Lindqvist wrote:
>>
>> In practice there is three categories of changes in automake-1.13
>> that cause packages to break. From that follows that virtually all
>> problems fall to three categories, and all packages suffering from
>> problem of the same category get virtually identical fix.
>>
> So these need the automake-1.13 update first?  I have the 1.12 version but
> have not seen the 1.13 version yet.
>
> Just want to confirm that.

 No, the other way around. These are needed in place before we can
even consider automake-1.13. They are compatible with several versions
back.

 From the amount of problematic packages openembedded-core alone
(there's going to be several batches of fixes) I don't think we can
make the actual switch to automake-1.13 any time soon. World would
explode.


 - ML




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