From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mga01.intel.com ([192.55.52.88]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TJOte-00014U-FW for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Wed, 03 Oct 2012 15:21:54 +0200 Received: from fmsmga002.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.26]) by fmsmga101.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 03 Oct 2012 06:08:53 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.80,528,1344236400"; d="scan'208";a="229998204" Received: from unknown (HELO helios.localnet) ([10.252.122.52]) by fmsmga002.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 03 Oct 2012 06:08:52 -0700 From: Paul Eggleton To: Koen Kooi Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2012 14:08:52 +0100 Message-ID: <2127422.3DHfZaTr9h@helios> Organization: Intel Corporation User-Agent: KMail/4.9.1 (Linux/3.2.0-31-generic-pae; KDE/4.9.1; i686; ; ) In-Reply-To: References: <1913726.eYu8z7U0Ds@helios> MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org Subject: Re: [meta-webserver][PATCH 6/6] xdebug: add new recipe X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2012 13:21:54 -0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" On Wednesday 03 October 2012 13:47:52 Koen Kooi wrote: > >> Why not do autotools_do_configure? > > > > Because AFAICT PHP modules are somewhat unusual when it comes to > > configure, and totally break if you try to autoreconf. IIRC this was the > > only way I could get the thing to build. > > Can you add a comment saying that? A lot of recipes in OE classic replace > the configure step, but our autotools support has improved a lot, so a > comment saying what is going wrong will help people updating the recipe. That's a good point, I've added a comment within do_configure on the branch noting why it's been done that way. Cheers, Paul -- Paul Eggleton Intel Open Source Technology Centre