From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from hermes.mlbassoc.com ([64.234.241.98] helo=mail.chez-thomas.org) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P62IT-0005Pr-0S for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 16:27:16 +0200 Received: by mail.chez-thomas.org (Postfix, from userid 999) id 5597B16608A2; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 08:26:44 -0600 (MDT) Received: from hermes.chez-thomas.org (hermes_local [192.168.1.101]) by mail.chez-thomas.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F387F1660899; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 08:26:43 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <4CB5C1A3.6000506@mlbassoc.com> Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 08:26:43 -0600 From: Gary Thomas User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100430 Fedora/3.0.4-2.fc11 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org References: In-Reply-To: X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 64.234.241.98 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: gary@mlbassoc.com X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on discovery X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.5 X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:20:07 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on linuxtogo.org) Subject: Re: do we need patch-native ? 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, 13 Oct 2010 14:27:16 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 10/13/2010 08:12 AM, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote: > Hi, > > I had to do a build on OpenSuse 11.3 today, and it failed building > quilt-native (0.46-r2) > > Root cause is that quilt configure tries to find whether patch is > installed and has a version> 2.4 > It does so by calling patch --version and extract the version string from it. > > The patch from 11.3 identifies itself as: > GNU patch 2.6.1.81-5b68 > However the quilt configure script expected to find output like: > patch 2.6 (which is what I get on my ubuntu 10.4 version). > > I see several possible options to fix this: > - make a package patch-native, so we can use our own patch > - patch quilt so its configure can deal with both patch version strings > > Problem with the latter is that I have no idea how many other recipes > will have a similar test (and definitely they are not all triggered by > the images I regularly build. > Therefore I think I have a preference to introduce patch-native, but I > would like to hear how you guys& gals think about this, and whether > you see other options. Sounds like quilt's configure script is broken. Such behaviour should not be catered to - it should be fixed. -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Gary Thomas | Consulting for the MLB Associates | Embedded world ------------------------------------------------------------