[Buildroot] [PATCH] json-c: needs host-autoconf

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com
Tue Aug 28 19:37:42 UTC 2018


Hello,

On Tue, 28 Aug 2018 21:35:57 +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:

> Wait, wait, why is this needed? This is a standard autotools package,
> it shouldn't need autoheader at build time.
> 
> Isn't it that there is a bogus timestamp or something like that forces
> some files to be re-generated ?
> 
> This problem only appears on Joseph's machine:
> http://autobuild.buildroot.net/?reason=json-glib%.
> 
> It doesn't happen on my autobuilder, even though it doesn't have
> autoheader installed system-wide.

Sorry, I messed up here: the package being fixed is json-c, not
json-glib. So the build failure does occur on several autobuilders:
http://autobuild.buildroot.net/?reason=json-c%.

However, I would still like to see an explanation of why autoheader is
needed in an autotools package. It should not be needed.

Best regards,

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com


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