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From: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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Hi,

On Thu, 2013-12-19 at 23:18 -0600, David Good wrote:
> I hope that this is the right list for my question.

Its really a question that should go to the openembedded-core list since
its about the metadata which is part of OE-Core.

>   I'm trying to write a bb recipe for Angstrom v2012_12 (BeagleBone
> Black) for the tDOM package which uses autotools in a strange way (to
> me anyhow).  configure is expected to be run from /(project
> root)/unix, like this:

It tricky to do but the freetype recipe in OE-Core shows one way of
handling this. 

Cheers,

Richard