[Buildroot] [PATCHv2 2/4] kmod: allow to build a host variant

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Dear Peter Korsgaard,

On Tue, 03 Sep 2013 00:46:01 +0200, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
> >>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> writes:
> 
>  >> We also need to set HOST_KMOD_AUTORECONF = YES because of the
>  >> configure.ac patch (arguably we should default HOST_<pkg>_AUTORECONF =
>  >> <pkg>_AUTORECONF).
> 
>  Thomas> Ah, yes, right. I didn't see the problem since the configure.ac patch
>  Thomas> is only to support gcc < 4.6.x on the host, which wasn't my case. But
>  Thomas> certainly useful in general indeed.
> 
> Not only that, but if you don't have (the right version of) autotools on
> your build host it also fails.

Ah, yes, right: configure.ac is newer than configure, so it tries to
automatically regenerate the configure script from configure.ac. Makes
sense, thanks for fixing it!

Thomas
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