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From: rdkehn at yahoo.com <rdkehn@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2016 10:52:00 -0600
Subject: [Buildroot] [RFC PATCH 1/3] package/dhcp: bump version to 4.3.3
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Hi Arnout,

On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 05:01:55PM +0100, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:
> On 09-01-16 22:59, Doug Kehn wrote:
> [snip]
> > +define DHCP_TOOLCHAIN_AR_REF
> > +	for d in common dhcpctl omapip; do \
> > +		sed -i 's#^AR.*#AR = $(TARGET_AR)#' $(@D)/$$d/Makefile; \
> > +	done
> > +endef
> > +DHCP_PRE_BUILD_HOOKS += DHCP_TOOLCHAIN_AR_REF
> 
>  This should be a post-patch hook. Or if the Makefile is generated by the
> configure step, a post-configure hook (but in that case it would be better to
> patch the configure script to generate the right thing to begin with).
> 
>  Oh yes, even better is an actual patch that can be upstreamed.

I first tried to patch all the relevant Makefile.in where 'AR = ar'
is hard coded so the patch could be submitted upstream; however, I
could never get the patch to take. Either configure or make would
fail. I'll be glad to try any suggestions.

Regards,
...doug