[OE-core] [PATCH] bdwgc: support configure on autoconf <2.69
Richard Purdie
richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org
Wed Jun 19 15:02:04 UTC 2013
On Wed, 2013-06-19 at 10:50 -0400, Joe MacDonald wrote:
> Adding the oe-core list back to the cc list since I accidentally
> dropped the list on my first response.
>
> On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 10:37 AM, Richard Purdie
> <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-06-19 at 10:15 -0400, Joe MacDonald wrote:
> >
> >
>
> > On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 10:10 AM, Richard Purdie
> > <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2013-06-19 at 09:56 -0400, joe at deserted.net
> wrote:
> > > From: Joe MacDonald <joe at deserted.net>
> > >
> > > Building bdwgc-native on systems with older
> versions of
> > autoconf (earlier
> > > than 2.69) is known to have issues:
> > >
> > > https://github.com/ivmai/bdwgc/issues/16
> > >
> > > An option is to simply mask the errors with
> > m4_pattern_allow(...) for each
> > > of the macros, but rerunning autoreconf produces a
> > functional configure
> > > script that builds a functional native version of
> bdwgc.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Joe MacDonald <joe at deserted.net>
> > > ---
> > > meta/recipes-support/bdwgc/bdwgc_7.2d.bb | 9
> +++++++++
> > > 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
> > >
> > > I tripped over this yesterday on one of my older
> builders.
> > It happens to still
> > > be Ubuntu 12.04.2. I don't know if it's unique to
> my
> > configuration, but after
> > > doing some digging around on the web I can't see
> any obvious
> > indications that
> > > I'm missing any autotools package and the general
> consensus
> > seems to be that
> > > autoreconf is the best option when the failures
> are
> > relatively beign as they
> > > are here.
> > >
> > > -J.
> > >
> > > diff --git
> a/meta/recipes-support/bdwgc/bdwgc_7.2d.bb
> > b/meta/recipes-support/bdwgc/bdwgc_7.2d.bb
> > > index 46e5257..d8e2de5 100644
> > > --- a/meta/recipes-support/bdwgc/bdwgc_7.2d.bb
> > > +++ b/meta/recipes-support/bdwgc/bdwgc_7.2d.bb
> > > @@ -36,3 +36,12 @@ ARM_INSTRUCTION_SET = "arm"
> > >
> > > inherit autotools
> > > BBCLASSEXTEND = "native nativesdk"
> > > +
> > > +do_configure_prepend() {
> > > + # Without this, on older installations of
> autoconf
> > errors crop up during configure:
> > > + # | configure.ac:70: error: possibly
> undefined macro:
> > AC_MSG_ERROR
> > > + # | If this token and others are
> legitimate,
> > please use m4_pattern_allow.
> > > + # | See the Autoconf documentation.
> > > + # | configure.ac:358: error: possibly
> undefined macro:
> > AS_IF
> > > + ( cd ${S}; autoreconf -i )
> > > +}
> >
> >
> > This is timely since we're seeing this issue on some
> of the
> > autobuilders. We should be autoreconfing by default
> though,
> > any idea why
> > it doesn't in this case?
> >
> >
> > No, I didn't actually dig into that, I didn't realize it
> should be
> > autoreconfing. Is it explciit in the do_configure step, or
> implicit?
> > Maybe it's a timestamp issue or something? The only
> machine I've got
> > left that has this problem is pretty fast, so maybe on a
> slower (or
> > more heavily loaded) machine an implicit rule will fire
> where a beefy,
> > unloaded one won't? Just a wild guess.
>
>
> Reading the link you supplied further, it could be a missing
> pkgconfig
> dependency?
>
>
> I thought so at first, but I couldn't find anything absent on my
> builder that looked even remotely pkgconfig-related. Then I started
> digging into the autotools stuff, since the warning is clearly about
> expanding autoconf macros and that's when I finally started paying
> attention to the version numbers on the failing host versus the
> builders I use that weren't complaining.
>
>
> It could still be that there's something missing, but when I noticed
> the comment just below the "closed" bar in the issue I linked:
>
>
> ivmai commented10 months ago
> I have tested the git sources from bdwgc and they only configure
> properly with autoconf >= 2.69. [...]
> It seemed like I'd found at least confirmation that what I was seeing
> was expected.
>
>
> I have no idea why the autotools.bbclass' autoreconf wouldn't do it,
> though. I'll go have a quick look to see if the tree is different
> because I also passed it -i when I did the autoreconf.
>
I have a reproducer:
bitbake bdwgc-native pkgconfig-native -c clean; bitbake bdwgc-native
Pretty sure its a missing pkgconfig dependency.
Cheers,
Richard
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