[OE-core] [PATCH] autogen-native: allow user to set POSIX_SHELL as desired

[Belal, Awais]

> In this case:
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grub.git/tree/NEWS#n159

Ooooh, thanks :)

BR,
Awais

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From: Alexander Kanavin <alexander.kanavin at linux.intel.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2017 6:24 PM
To: Belal, Awais; Robert Yang; openembedded-core at lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: [OE-core] [PATCH] autogen-native: allow user to set POSIX_SHELL as desired

On 05/18/2017 04:20 PM, Belal, Awais wrote:
>> I just checked why is autogen in oe-core in the first place. The
>> only thing that needs it now is grub, and it will no longer be
>> necessary when Khem's grub 2.02 patch shows up in master. So then
>> we can remove the whole thing. But thanks for fixing! :)
>
> I went through Khem's grub2 changes:
> http://cgit.openembedded.org/openembedded-core-contrib/commit/?h=kraj/master&id=0af89270aa83d6ad0a4859e18643b53191567c8b
> and in those changes the grub2.inc still reads
>
> DEPENDS = "flex-native bison-native autogen-native"
>
> So I think this can be valuable :)

Don't take what DEPENDS says as authoritative on the subject. :) The
only way to tell if some dependency is no longer needed is careful
inspection of upstream code.

In this case:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grub.git/tree/NEWS#n159

Alex