[oe] emacs copying ${STAGING_DIR_TARGET} - wtf?

[Martin Jansa]

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 11:05:29AM +1030, Graham Gower wrote:
> emacs.inc has this nugget in do_compile_prepend():
> cp -pPR ${STAGING_DIR_TARGET}/* $treedir

ah, ugly indeed :/
> 
> During a world build, both emacs and emacs-x11 copy some 5GB into
> their work dirs. This really seems like overkill.
> 
> Could someone familiar with building emacs take a look to see if
> there is a reasonable alternative?
> 
> thanks,
> -Graham
> 
> PS: emacs and emacs-x11 fail for me in do_compile.

Do you have make-3.82 on your host? emacs-x11_23.1.bb compiles fine with
SHR.

Regards,
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Martin 'JaMa' Jansa     jabber: Martin.Jansa at gmail.com