[Buildroot] ParaGUI package?

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Thu Jan 9 22:34:21 UTC 2014


Dear Arnout Vandecappelle,

On Thu, 09 Jan 2014 18:01:24 +0100, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:

> >> Makefile.am: error: required file './NEWS' not found
> >> Makefile.am: error: required file './ChangeLog' not found
> >
> > These seems to be the real problems. Easiest solution is to add a post
> > patch hook with "touch $(@D)/NEWS $(@D)/ChangeLog"
> 
>   Actually, perhaps we should always to this when PKG_AUTORECONF is YES? 
> There are quite a lot of packages that have this touch trick.

I think I'd prefer these packages to be fixed upstream by adding the
"foreign" argument to AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE. It's not like a patch doing
this should be hard to get merged upstream, no?

Thanks!

Thomas
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