[oe] Can't build on Fedora 13

[Gary Thomas]

On 07/24/2010 01:01 PM, Gary Thomas wrote:
> Trying to build angstrom-gnome-image for beagleboard, fresh checkout
> of org.openembedded.dev:
> commit 244deb462973a2d7a9bfcc3399843202f9d29d51
> Author: Stanislav Brabec <utx at penguin.cz>
> Date: Sat Jul 24 14:21:03 2010 +0000
>
> On Fedora 13, I get this error:
>
> ERROR: Function do_configure failed
> NOTE: Task failed: ('function do_configure failed',
> '/home/local/Angstrom_BeagleBoard/tmp/work/i686-linux/gawk-native-3.1.4-r3/temp/log.do_configure.10165')
>
> ERROR: Logfile of failure stored in:
> /home/local/Angstrom_BeagleBoard/tmp/work/i686-linux/gawk-native-3.1.4-r3/temp/log.do_configure.10165
>
> Log data follows:
> | automake (GNU automake) 1.11.1
> | Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> | License GPLv2+: GNU GPL version 2 or later
> <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html>
> | This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
> | There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
> |
> | Written by Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat.com>
> | and Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl at gnu.org>.
> | AUTOV is 1.11
> | NOTE:
> /home/local/Angstrom_BeagleBoard/tmp/sysroots/i686-linux/usr/share/gettext/config.rpath
> not found. gettext is not installed.
> | NOTE: Executing autoreconf --verbose --install --force
> --exclude=autopoint -I
> /home/local/Angstrom_BeagleBoard/tmp/work/i686-linux/gawk-native-3.1.4-r3/gawk-3.1.4/m4/
> -I/home/local/Angstrom_BeagleBoard/tmp/sysroots/i686-linux/usr/share/aclocal-1.11
> -I
> /home/local/Angstrom_BeagleBoard/tmp/sysroots/i686-linux/usr/share/aclocal
> | /usr/bin/autoreconf: unrecognized option `--exclude=autopoint'
> | Try `/usr/bin/autoreconf --help' for more information.
> | FATAL: autoreconf execution failed.
> NOTE: package gawk-native-3.1.4-r3: task do_configure: Failed
>
> The same tree builds on Fedora 12

A little more info

Differences:
   Fedora 12 - autoconf 2.63
   Fedora 13 - autoconf 2.65

Neither manual page mentions a '--exclude=' option.

The file classes/autotools.bbclass is explicitly adding this option.

> Any ideas how to work past this?
>
> Thanks
>

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