[oe] [PATCH (updated)] autotools.bbclass: enhanced oe_runconf() to accept quoted arguments

[Enrico Scholz]

Chris Larson <clarson at kergoth.com> writes:

> Ahh, I see, that makes it clear, thanks for clarifying.  I have a local
> patch that turns cfgcmd into a bitbake variable, and runs ${cfgcmd}
> "$@".
> What do you think about that approach as an alternative?  

It will work...  I do not know the story behind 'cfgcmd' but I guess it
was added to avoid code duplication in 'oenote "Running $cfgcmd..."'.

This 'oenote' is probably useful for debugging.  But for me, tracing
program invocations is such an elementary instrument to analyze problems
that I patched[1] 'bitbake' some time ago to enable shell monitoring
globally.

Without this (for me redundant) 'oenote' message, we could call ./configure
directly (like in oe_runmake) without any shell or python helper variables.




Enrico

Footnotes: 
[1]  http://www.ensc.de/bitbake/0003-trace.patch
     --> shell calls will be recorded in logfile