[oe] [OE-core] [PATCH 7/7] autoconf: remove automake patch enforcing --foreign

[Khem Raj]

On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 2:51 PM, Burton, Ross <ross.burton at intel.com> wrote:
> On 15 July 2014 21:14, Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com> wrote:
>> can it be somehow made such that it can be passed via option flags so we
>> dont have to patch the packages not using above automake macro
>
> Packages that don't use the right automake macro are generally very
> old and we're already carrying patches to fix the autoconf/automake
> files, so I'm not sure this is actually worth it.  I'm trying to drop
> the patches we're carrying against core build tools, not increase it.
> :)

While I understand that, I am also worried about breakage/work it will
cause for layers additional to OE-Core
thats why providing a least impact migration path is desirable.