[oe] Trouble compiling system-tools-backends

[Khem Raj]

On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 8:10 PM, Zach Frey <zach at znfrey.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 10:56 PM, Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> > A question -- is the build supposed to be using the build host's
>> automake,
>> > or is it supposed to be using one from its downloaded toolchain?
>>
>> well automake is used from the contained versions. We use the version
>> from native staging which
>> is the version we build. The automake installed on your host is not
>> used unless you do some stuff
>> with assume provided.
>>
>>
> From
> $OEBASE/build/tmp/work/armv7a-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/system-tools-backends-2.10.1-r0/temp/run.do_compile.12625
>
>                        AUTOV=`automake --version |head -n 1 |sed "s/.*
> //;s/\.[0-9]\+$//"`
>                        automake --version
>                        echo "AUTOV is $AUTOV"
>
> As far as I can tell, this will pick up the host, not the contained version.
>
> Tried to understand where this is spelled out in the recipe, but not seeing
> it (afraid I'm new to this).
>

Well see where the PATHS are set in the script.