From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2013 09:02:58 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCHv2 2/4] kmod: allow to build a host variant In-Reply-To: <87zjru7sgm.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> References: <1377624514-10510-1-git-send-email-thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> <1377624514-10510-3-git-send-email-thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> <87fvtn7xgj.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> <20130902234844.5e078d47@skate> <87zjru7sgm.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> Message-ID: <20130903090258.6ee33baf@skate> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Dear Peter Korsgaard, On Tue, 03 Sep 2013 00:46:01 +0200, Peter Korsgaard wrote: > >>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni writes: > > >> We also need to set HOST_KMOD_AUTORECONF = YES because of the > >> configure.ac patch (arguably we should default HOST__AUTORECONF = > >> _AUTORECONF). > > Thomas> Ah, yes, right. I didn't see the problem since the configure.ac patch > Thomas> is only to support gcc < 4.6.x on the host, which wasn't my case. But > Thomas> certainly useful in general indeed. > > Not only that, but if you don't have (the right version of) autotools on > your build host it also fails. Ah, yes, right: configure.ac is newer than configure, so it tries to automatically regenerate the configure script from configure.ac. Makes sense, thanks for fixing it! Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com