[OE-core] [PATCH] glibc: 'yes' within the path sets wrong variables

[Khem Raj]

On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 4:22 AM, Burton, Ross <ross.burton at intel.com> wrote:
>
> On 25 February 2015 at 18:14, Benjamin Esquivel
> <benjamin.esquivel at linux.intel.com> wrote:
>>
>> Saul, is there a specific part of the glibc's run.do_configure that
>> should re-conf?
>
>
> The glibc recipe explicitly avoids autoreconfig:
>
> "# override this function to avoid the autoconf/automake/aclocal/autoheader
> calls for now"

it is intentional since glibc would use older versions of autotools.
2.21 should be using 2.69, so in theory we
can reconf, but this needs to be tested thoroughly.

>
> Khem is the person to ask if this is something that can be removed but for
> now, patching the configure is all we can do (and sending the patch upstream
> so we don't need to patch configure in the future).
>
> Ross