[OE-core] Autotools and "foreign"

[Burton, Ross]

On 13 August 2014 06:13, Mike Looijmans <mike.looijmans at topic.nl> wrote:
> That might be the case if said upstream people actually still existed. Most
> of these packages have since long been abandoned.

That's generally where the problems are - packages that expect
autotools from ten years ago.

> So I guess I'll have to cook up a class that works around it, just adding
> the "missing" files into the S directory might do the trick.

In my experience of fixing oe-core, most packages that fail here
already have patches to fix their autotools infrastructure, so adding
[foreign] is just another fix in the same patch.

Ross