From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] How to force AUTORECONF for everything
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 22:20:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170216222026.788ee7b3@free-electrons.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170216174538.GC4986@free.fr>
Hello,
On Thu, 16 Feb 2017 18:45:38 +0100, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> No, there is no global setting that forces that behaviour.
>
> You'll have to hack the autotools infra. See in package/pkg-autotools.mk at 143:
>
> 139 ifndef $(2)_AUTORECONF
> 140 ifdef $(3)_AUTORECONF
> 141 $(2)_AUTORECONF = $$($(3)_AUTORECONF)
> 142 else
> 143 $(2)_AUTORECONF ?= NO
> 144 endif
> 145 endif
>
> You may want to change that "NO" to a "YES"
>
> But beware, here be dragins...
In theory, there should be no dragons.
In practice, lots and lots of package to not autoreconf properly, so
you're going to face a *lot* of build failures by forcing autoreconf on
all packages.
Best regards,
Thomas
--
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com
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2017-02-16 17:11 [Buildroot] How to force AUTORECONF for everything Sidney Manning
2017-02-16 17:45 ` Yann E. MORIN
2017-02-16 21:20 ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
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