[Buildroot] [PATCH] libtool: use a different way to avoid autoreconfiguration

[Arnout Vandecappelle]

On 20/03/14 00:25, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Dear Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind),
> 
> On Thu, 20 Mar 2014 00:03:00 +0100, Arnout Vandecappelle
> (Essensium/Mind) wrote:
>> In 4268d39, a patch was added to update libtool.m4 for MIPS n64 targets.
>> However, this caused the configure script to be regenerated during the
>> build steps, which in turn caused build failures on Fedora 12 hosts. In
>> ed73d1d, this was fixed by patching the installed libtool.m4 file
>> instead of the source file.
>>
>> However, ed73d1d did not take into account that the target libtool will
>> also install libtool.m4 to staging, and that that version has
>> precedence over the one in HOST_DIR.
>>
>> Therefore, this patch takes a different approach: the source file is
>> patched in the usual way, and instead the reconfigure is avoided by
>> touching the generated files.
>>
>> On the target, we also cannot use the AUTORECONF mechanism because of
>> some mysterious Makefile.inc file. So just use the same approach and
>> wait for upstream to make a new release.
> 
> Shouldn't we mark libtool on the target as something deprecated? We
> have already removed the support for autoconf and automake on the
> target, so having libtool seems quite useless, no?

 Pulseaudio depends on libtool. I guess it actually depends on libltdl,
though. But is precisely in libltdl that the problem occurs.


 Regards,
 Arnout


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