[Buildroot] [PATCH] sdl: fix autoreconf timing issue

Maxime Hadjinlian maxime.hadjinlian at gmail.com
Wed Feb 12 12:51:23 UTC 2014


On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 4:47 PM, Thomas Petazzoni
<thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> Dear Maxime Hadjinlian,
>
> On Tue, 11 Feb 2014 10:12:35 +0100, Maxime Hadjinlian wrote:
>
>> If your machine was under heavy load, the time difference between the
>> two files would have been greater and then *maybe* picked up by
>> autoconf. And then the configure file was re-generated.
>>
>> When the 0001 patch was introduced, SDL package did *NOT* run it's
>> autogen.sh, which is why it touches also the configure.
>> This came later, causing this behavior.
>>
>> Fixes:
>>   http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/d1c/d1c36f634dbf6b6e5d18444c2a23dfd129202b80/
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Maxime Hadjinlian <maxime.hadjinlian at gmail.com>
>
> Wow, amazing problem. Thanks a lot for getting to the bottom of it. The
> solution is indeed simple, but the investigation definitely wasn't
> (I've followed your conversation with Yann on IRC yesterday evening,
> and I remember quickly discussing the issue with you during the
> Buildroot Developer Days). Congrats!
Thank you.
A huge thanks to Yann E. Morin too as he put me on the right track and
I stupidly forgot to add him as Cc: :/.
>
> Thomas
> --
> Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
> Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
> http://free-electrons.com


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