Re: [PATCH] do not use --symlink for autoreconf

[Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>]

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On 07/02/2014 03:06 PM, Marc Kleine-Budde wrote:
> On 07/02/2014 02:58 PM, Marc Kleine-Budde wrote:
>> On 07/02/2014 02:41 PM, Andre Naujoks wrote:
>>> On 02.07.2014 14:34, Andre Naujoks wrote:
>>>> On 02.07.2014 14:18, Marc Kleine-Budde wrote:
>>>>> On 07/02/2014 02:12 PM, Andre Naujoks wrote:
>>>>>> When packaging the can-utils, I understand, that the generation
>>>>>> step for autoconf should be done beforehand. However using the
>>>>>> --symlink option in the autoreconf step installs links instead of
>>>>>> the actual files, which leads to a build failure when trying to
>>>>>> build on another host with different autotools installed.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Andre Naujoks <nautsch2@gmail.com>
>>>>>
>>>>> How do you package the can-utils? The usual steps are:
>>>>>
>>>>> ./autogen.sh ./configure make dist
>>>>
>>>> with git archive. Something like
>>>>
>>>> git archive --prefix=can-utils-`git describe --always --dirty`/ -o
>>>> can-utils-`git describe --always --dirty`.tar.gz HEAD
>>>
>>> ... after which I unpack, autogen.sh and repack. Which is probably not
>>> the sanest way of doing this, but should work.
>>
>> This is why you get the problems with the links....
> 
> Try something like this instead (untested, though):
> 
> project=can-utils-`git describe --always --dirty`
> git archive --prefix=$project/ -o $project.tar HEAD
> tar xf $project.tar
> cd $project
> ./autogen.sh
> cd ..
> tar -rhf $project.tar \
>         $project/GNUmakefile.in
>         $project/aclocal.m4
>         $project/autom4te.cache/
          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Doh! You don't want to package this. Copy/Paste error.

Marc
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