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From: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [RFC v1 05/14] autotools infrastructure: do the autoreconf as a post patch step
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2013 23:03:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <510452A9.4050805@mind.be> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1358725943-31485-6-git-send-email-thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>

On 01/21/13 00:52, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Doing the autoreconf step as a pre-configure hook doesn't work
> properly, because the source directory is read-only during the
> configure step. And in fact, the autoreconf process modifies the
> source code, so it is quite logical to do it as part of the patching
> process rather than the configuration process.

  It was in fact moved from POST_PATCH to PRE_CONFIGURE in commit 
89d1ad91fe4b1b65f0e902f94aba99a6cefbf631, and the PRE_CONFIGURE_HOOKS 
were added specifically for this purpose. Unfortunately, the commit gives 
no explanation as to why it was needed.


  Regards,
  Arnout

>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni<thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
> ---
>   package/pkg-autotools.mk |    2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/package/pkg-autotools.mk b/package/pkg-autotools.mk
> index bd87253..ec394fd 100644
> --- a/package/pkg-autotools.mk
> +++ b/package/pkg-autotools.mk
> @@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ $(2)_DEPENDENCIES ?= $(filter-out host-automake host-autoconf host-libtool $(1),
>
>
>   ifeq ($$($(2)_AUTORECONF),YES)
> -$(2)_PRE_CONFIGURE_HOOKS += AUTORECONF_HOOK
> +$(2)_POST_PATCH_HOOKS += AUTORECONF_HOOK
>   $(2)_DEPENDENCIES += host-automake host-autoconf host-libtool
>   endif
>


-- 
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  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-26 22:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-20 23:52 [Buildroot] [RFC v1] Prototype implementation of per-package out of tree build Thomas Petazzoni
2013-01-20 23:52 ` [Buildroot] [RFC v1 01/14] Add a new "src" directory in the output directory Thomas Petazzoni
2013-01-21 13:47   ` Jérôme Pouiller
2013-01-21 17:16     ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-01-22 10:15       ` Jérôme Pouiller
2013-01-22 16:49         ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-01-22 17:12           ` Jérôme Pouiller
2013-01-23 15:45             ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-01-24 10:34               ` Jérôme Pouiller
2013-01-20 23:52 ` [Buildroot] [RFC v1 02/14] package infrastructure: move subdir support to autotools Thomas Petazzoni
2013-01-20 23:52 ` [Buildroot] [RFC v1 03/14] generic infrastructure: out of tree build support Thomas Petazzoni
2013-01-24 21:41   ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2013-01-20 23:52 ` [Buildroot] [RFC v1 04/14] autotools infrastructure: support out of tree build Thomas Petazzoni
2013-01-24 21:57   ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2013-01-20 23:52 ` [Buildroot] [RFC v1 05/14] autotools infrastructure: do the autoreconf as a post patch step Thomas Petazzoni
2013-01-26 22:03   ` Arnout Vandecappelle [this message]
2013-01-27 16:27     ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-01-27 22:18       ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2013-01-28  8:13         ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-01-20 23:52 ` [Buildroot] [RFC v1 06/14] cmake infrastructure: support out of tree build Thomas Petazzoni
2013-01-20 23:52 ` [Buildroot] [RFC v1 07/14] busybox: " Thomas Petazzoni
2013-01-20 23:52 ` [Buildroot] [RFC v1 08/14] mtd: " Thomas Petazzoni
2013-01-20 23:52 ` [Buildroot] [RFC v1 09/14] barebox: " Thomas Petazzoni
2013-01-20 23:52 ` [Buildroot] [RFC v1 10/14] uboot: " Thomas Petazzoni
2013-01-20 23:52 ` [Buildroot] [RFC v1 11/14] linux: " Thomas Petazzoni
2013-01-20 23:52 ` [Buildroot] [RFC v1 12/14] autoconf: fix out-of-tree build Thomas Petazzoni
2013-01-20 23:52 ` [Buildroot] [RFC v1 13/14] cmake: support out of tree build Thomas Petazzoni
2013-01-20 23:52 ` [Buildroot] [RFC v1 14/14] makedevs: " Thomas Petazzoni
2013-01-21  4:24 ` [Buildroot] [RFC v1] Prototype implementation of per-package out oftree build Przemyslaw Wrzos
2013-01-21 17:26   ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-01-21 18:51     ` Stephan Hoffmann
2013-01-24 20:12 ` [Buildroot] [RFC v1] Prototype implementation of per-package out of tree build Arnout Vandecappelle

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