[OE-core] Backport for Jethro of fe506ed (autotools: Allow recipe-individual configure scripts)

[Dan McGregor]

On 8 December 2015 at 06:36, Otavio Salvador
<otavio.salvador at ossystems.com.br> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would like to propose the backport of fe506ed (autotools: Allow
> recipe-individual configure scripts):
>
> commit fe506eddb0790e37ac1e50f37fa2e32ad81d5493
> Author: Jens Rehsack <rehsack at gmail.com>
> Date:   Tue Oct 13 22:35:52 2015 +0200
>
>     autotools: Allow recipe-individual configure scripts
>
>     OpenJDK-8 has it's configure script at common/autotools - which will cause
>     the entire assumption of ${S}/configure is regenerated by
> autoreconf, intltoolize or alike
>     fails heavily.
>
>     Also - other configure mechanisms can be supported more similar
> (see how pkgsrc
>     manages different ones ...)
>
>     Signed-off-by: Jens Rehsack <sno at netbsd.org>
>     Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.burton at intel.com>
>
> This allows for a more controlled execution of the autotools scripts
> and as described on the commit log allows the use of OpenJDK-8 as
> well.

I'd like to second this. Without it one needs the master branch to
build the new openjdk-8 recipes.