[oe] [OE-core] [PATCH 0/7][RFC] Remove enforced --foreign in autoreconf

[Richard Purdie]

On Tue, 2014-07-15 at 18:58 +0200, Martin Jansa wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 05:18:30PM +0100, Ross Burton wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Since 2004 we've been forcibly passing --foreign to automake in autoreconf.
> > This is a change from upstream behaviour and can actually break packages that
> > expect GNU behaviour (admittedly the failure case reported was "interesting"),
> > and I'm on a bit of a mission to remove patches that don't have a solid reason
> > behind them.
> > 
> > Forcing --foreign doesn't seem that important these days as the majority of
> > packages are telling automake they're foreign, There are a few packages that
> > need patches for this change, notably they're mostly packages that haven't seen
> > a release for ten years.
> > 
> > This series is build tested against a world build in oe-core for NUC, so I'd
> > call it a demonstration that the patch is viable and would appreciate others
> > running build tests against other machines or layers.
> 
> world builds from
> http://www.openembedded.org/wiki/Bitbake_World_Status
> already have around ~50 failed recipes per architecture, I don't think
> we need more now :/
> 
> Do we have some volunteers to fix-up meta-oe/* layers?
> 
> I'm going to use PNBLACKLIST more aggressively as agreed on OEDAM, but
> with this speed next meta-oe release will have half of recipes which
> were available in daisy.

I made a quick test and the failures I spotted from meta-oe likely due
to this patch were:

re2c
libsdl-iomage
claws-plugin-gtkhtml2-viewer
claws-plugin-rssyl
libsdl-tiff
libol
ode
dejagnu
memcached
rp-pppoe
ipsec-tools
mtr
hplip
onig

Its probably not a complete list as I have a lot more failures than your
world builds but it gives some idea of number and its not a massive
list.

Cheers,

Richard