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From: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2017 19:08:50 +0200
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] package/asterisk: fix host build
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Arnout, All,

On 2017-09-24 19:04 +0200, Yann E. MORIN spake thusly:
> On 2017-09-24 18:51 +0200, Arnout Vandecappelle spake thusly:
> > On 24-09-17 18:33, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
[--SNIP--]
> > > +# Even though menuselect is an autotools package, it is not an automake
> > > +# package and does not have an 'install' rule, as asterisk does expect
> > > +# it to be in a sub-directory of its source tree. We do so by copying
> > > +# the full menuselect build tree as a pre-configure hook in the target
> > > +# variant.
> > > +# However, the sanity checks on host packages are not run on menuselect.
> > > +# But we still want to catch that menuselect has the proper rpath set,
> > > +# for example, as it uses host libraries that we do build, like
> > > +# host-libxml2.
> > > +# So we do manually install the menuselect tool.
> > >  define HOST_ASTERISK_INSTALL_CMDS
> > > -	@:
> > > +	$(INSTALL) -D -m 0755 $(@D)/menuselect/menuselect \
> > > +		$(HOST_DIR)/bin/asterisk-menuselect
> > 
> >  So then could you symlink to this instead of copying the entire tree?
> 
> Nope, because all the intermediate object files would missing, so the
> Makefile would try to build them, and would then rebuild menuseclect as
> well, and all those efforts would have been in vain...

Oh, and I forgot: it needs a file, makeopts, generated by configure, but
running menuselect's configure in the target variant is the things we
want to avoid in the first place.

And to be sure, I tried what you suggest, and it does not work (build
failure).

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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