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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] autotools.bbclass: use relative path for acpaths whenever possible
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On Tue, 2012-12-04 at 10:57 +0800, ChenQi wrote:
> Hi Richard,
> 
> I saw that this series of patches have been merged except this one.
> Is there any problem with this patch?
> 
> The thing is, if we don't fix autotool.bbclass like this, building 
> coreutils will fail with a long TMPDIR (bug#2766). I tried to build 
> coretuils with TMPDIR of 200 char length, it failed.

I know but I'm rather unhappy having the autotools code work two rather
different ways depending on the number of configure scripts a project
has, it all seems like a bit of a hack :(

I don't like the fix but I haven't found time to propose any
alternative...

Cheers,

Richard