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

[Benjamin Esquivel]

On Thu, 2015-02-26 at 08:17 -0800, Khem Raj wrote:
> 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.

Indeed it starts bleeding all over with failures if a reconf is
attempted. I'll stick to the bug fix for now.

> 
> >
> > 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