[Buildroot] [PATCH v3 1/1] pkg-autotools: generic configure fix for powerpc64

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello,

On Mon, 28 Nov 2016 16:11:39 +1100, Sam Bobroff wrote:
> Many (100+) packages supported by buildroot contain old configure
> scripts (or build them from old versions of autotools) that are unable
> to determine how to link shared libraries on powerpc64 and
> powerpc64le. This causes that test to erroneously fail on toolchains
> that are not "bi-endian" (which is the case for toolchains built by
> buildroot), which causes configure to build static libraries instead
> of dynamic ones. Although these builds succeed, they tend to cause
> linker failures in binaries later linked against them.
> 
> Because affected configure files can be discovered automatically, this
> patch introduces a hook (enabled only when building for powerpc64 and
> powerpc64le) that uses a script to scan and fix each package.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sam Bobroff <sam.bobroff at au1.ibm.com>
> ---

Applied to master, thanks.

Thomas
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