From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp06.online.nl (smtp06.online.nl [194.134.42.51]) by mail.openembedded.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89E2862252 for ; Tue, 12 Aug 2014 17:40:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp06.online.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp06.online.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3915B96247 for ; Tue, 12 Aug 2014 19:40:09 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.1.6] (s55969068.adsl.online.nl [85.150.144.104]) by smtp06.online.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP for ; Tue, 12 Aug 2014 19:40:09 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <53EA5178.7020209@topic.nl> Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 19:40:08 +0200 From: Mike Looijmans Organization: Topic User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Online-Scanned: by Cloudmark authority (on smtp06.online.nl) Subject: Autotools and "foreign" X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 17:40:13 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I tried to upgrade to the current master, and got a few dozen packages now failing to build because of automake errors like this: | Makefile.am: error: required file './NEWS' not found | Makefile.am: error: required file './README' not found | Makefile.am: error: required file './AUTHORS' not found This apparently traces down to: 74b05bba64589da0e4439a4293559ad9670104bd "autoconf: remove automake patch enforcing --foreign" Is there an alternative to manually patching all of these packages to get them to compile once more? -- Mike Looijmans