From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2014 17:06:49 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH v3] libevent: Use github call & fix patch In-Reply-To: <1413713789-28767-1-git-send-email-maxime.hadjinlian@gmail.com> References: <1413713789-28767-1-git-send-email-maxime.hadjinlian@gmail.com> Message-ID: <20141019170649.46a39583@free-electrons.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Dear Maxime Hadjinlian, On Sun, 19 Oct 2014 12:16:29 +0200, Maxime Hadjinlian wrote: > We want to use the github helper since we download a generated tarball > from the tag anyway. > > We also need to use AUTORECONF as those releases do not contains > 'configure' and such. > > The patch that was already present is updated to apply against > Makefile.am instead of Makefile.in > > The second patch is backported from upstream to remove the use of > $(top_src_dirs) which makes current autotools error out. > > Signed-off-by: Maxime Hadjinlian I still don't understand the benefit of switching from a download place that provides a tarball with the configure and Makefile.in already generated to a place where those are not generated and will therefore always require an autoreconf. Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com