From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 06:34:21 +0800 Subject: [Buildroot] ParaGUI package? In-Reply-To: <52CED5E4.90603@mind.be> References: <20140108113404.413a4685@skate> <52CED5E4.90603@mind.be> Message-ID: <20140110063421.2709bb16@skate> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Dear Arnout Vandecappelle, On Thu, 09 Jan 2014 18:01:24 +0100, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote: > >> Makefile.am: error: required file './NEWS' not found > >> Makefile.am: error: required file './ChangeLog' not found > > > > These seems to be the real problems. Easiest solution is to add a post > > patch hook with "touch $(@D)/NEWS $(@D)/ChangeLog" > > Actually, perhaps we should always to this when PKG_AUTORECONF is YES? > There are quite a lot of packages that have this touch trick. I think I'd prefer these packages to be fixed upstream by adding the "foreign" argument to AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE. It's not like a patch doing this should be hard to get merged upstream, no? Thanks! Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com