[OE-core] [PATCH] lz4: actually install things

Burton, Ross ross.burton at intel.com
Thu Jan 23 11:47:32 UTC 2014


On 23 January 2014 11:40, Koen Kooi <koen at dominion.thruhere.net> wrote:
>>>> Couldn't it inherit autotools?
>>>
>>> It's a handcrafted Makefile, not autotools :(
>>
>> No problem, it works as well.
>>
>> The do_configure checks for configure.ac/configure.in and it avoid you
>> to handcraft do_install and like.
>
> The recipes that used such a workaround have all been changed to remote autotools.bbclass over the years, so I'm not sure how encouraged it is.


Personally a recipe should only inherit autotools if it actually uses
autotools.  Hand crafted makefiles should mean hand-crafted recipes.

Ross



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