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

[Jens Rehsack]

> Am 09.12.2015 um 17:16 schrieb Dan McGregor <danismostlikely at gmail.com>:
> 
> 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.

I currently use this on our jethro builds (those with the overlayfs ^^)
without any issues. Build check might be easy, but we don't encounter
any unexpected behavior on target.

Cheers
--
Jens Rehsack - rehsack at gmail.com

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