[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/3] Experimental addition of the newlib library

[Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>]

Chris, All,

On 2015-09-15 18:42 -0400, Cjw X spake thusly:
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> I'm working on switching it over to be an autotools-package now.
> Newlib has a fun issue though. Newlib wants to install it's headers in
> the wrong place with respect to how buildroot builds its tools. When I
> modified newlib's configure.ac to fix the problem, I selected
> AUTORECONF for newlib to rebuild the automake tools. However, I get an
> error that it is the wrong autoreconf version. Apparently, it only
> works with version 2.64, and we are using version 2.69.
> 
> I can comment out the check, which appears to work, but that seems
> like a poor solution.

In this case, I thing the easiest is just o patch both configure.in and
configure, since the change is trivial, and comment in the patch that
newlib does not autoreconf, hence the two changes.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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