[oe] Prepare recipes for automake-1.13 (batch 1)

[Martin Jansa]

On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 08:54:12PM +0200, Marko Lindqvist wrote:
> This batch is just three patches - most likely just drop in the
> ocean of automake-1.13 problems in meta-openembedded. These are
> kind side-products of trying to get things to work in
> openembedded-core side.
> 
> Below text is about all the work I've done for automake-1.13
> compatibility so far - not all of it is relevant to this batch.

All 3 merged, libmikmod was missing PR bump, but it's not big issue for
this kind of change.

Cheers,

> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> In practice there is three categories of changes in automake-1.13
> that cause packages to break. From that follows that virtually all
> problems fall to three categories, and all packages suffering from
> problem of the same category get virtually identical fix.
> 
> * Long deprecated macros completely removed from automake-1.13,
>   which errors out upon seeing them. For these I add patch,
>   always called obsolete_automake_macros.patch, that replaces
>   obsolete macro with proper one. Most of the patches are just
>   AM_CONFIG_HEADER -> AC_CONFIG_HEADERS change.
> 
> * Trying to run help2man via "missing" when it doesn't exist.
>   Old automake versions allowed "missing" to be used that way,
>   1.13 aborts. I'm just removing the attempt to create manpages
>   that way. Note that it never actually worked anyway -
>   old automake just didn't abort when it failed.
> 
> * TESTS list cannot have $(srcdir) or $(top_srcdir) as part
>   of the path. When it does, it's usually bug in the package,
>   but unfortunately automake prevents it also when it's not.
>   Solution applied here is to simply remove TESTS.
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> [meta-oe][PATCH 1/3] tslib: replace obsolete automake macros with
> [meta-oe][PATCH 2/3] libmikmod: replace obsolete automake macros
> [meta-oe][PATCH 3/3] libmad: replace obsolete automake macros with
> 
> 
> 
>  - ML
> 
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