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On 12/04/2012 04:39 PM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> 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
>
>
OK. I see.
I've tried a lot but I can't figure out a better way to do it.
Hope someone could come up with a better proposal to this problem:)

Thanks,
Chen Qi