[OE-core] [PATCH 1/3 v2] sanity.bbclass: Check for the known broken version of make

[Trevor Woerner]

On 27 June 2013 10:08, Mark Hatle <mark.hatle at windriver.com> wrote:
> See GNU Savannah bug 30612 -- make 3.82 is known to be broken.
>
> A number of vendors are providing a modified version, so checking
> for just the version string is not enough.  We also need to check
> if the patch for the issue has been applied.  We use a modified
> version of the reproduced to check for the issue.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mark Hatle <mark.hatle at windriver.com>
> ---
> +
> +        if status != 0:
> +            return "Your version of make 3.82 is broken. Please revert to 3.81 or install a patched version.\n"


Instead of returning an error and asking the user to manually update
their own 'make', wouldn't it be better if bitbake simply built its
own known-to-be-working -native version instead? In this way a good,
working version of 'make' could be installed in a potential SDK's
sysroot as well?