From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 17:01:44 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH v4] libevent: Use github call & fix patch In-Reply-To: <1413739261-3675-1-git-send-email-maxime.hadjinlian@gmail.com> References: <1413739261-3675-1-git-send-email-maxime.hadjinlian@gmail.com> Message-ID: <20141026170144.0aaa3d00@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 19:21:01 +0200, Maxime Hadjinlian wrote: > We want to use the github helper since there is not a specific releases > tarball that we can download, as specified in the manual. > > This tarball is generated from the tag, which doesn't contains the > autotools generated files, we then need to use AUTORECONF. > > We want to use the github helper anyway as the current URL use an old > GitHub feature which was called 'Download' where you could upload files > along your repositories, theses files were not related to your tags. > > This features has been replaced with the 'Release' option where you can > create a release from a git tag. But these tarball are generated from > the sources and they don't contains all the generated autotools file. > > Since the old URL scheme can be deprecated at any time, we want to > switch to the new URL scheme, which in the case of libevent, implies > having to do an AUTORECONF. > > 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 Applied, thanks! Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com