Re: Prepare recipes for automake-1.13 (batch 1)

[Saul Wold <sgw@linux.intel.com>]

On 01/03/2013 12:36 PM, Marko Lindqvist wrote:
> In practice there is three categories of changes in automake-1.13
> that cause packages to break. From that follows that virtually all
> problems fall to three categories, and all packages suffering from
> problem of the same category get virtually identical fix.
>
> * Long deprecated macros completely removed from automake-1.13,
>    which errors out upon seeing them. For these I add patch,
>    always called obsolete_automake_macros.patch, that replaces
>    obsolete macro with proper one. Most of the patches are just
>    AM_CONFIG_HEADER -> AC_CONFIG_HEADERS change.
>
> * Trying to run help2man via "missing" when it doesn't exist.
>    Old automake versions allowed "missing" to be used that way,
>    1.13 aborts. I'm just removing the attempt to create manpages
>    that way. Note that it never actually worked anyway -
>    old automake just didn't abort when it failed.
>
> * TESTS list cannot have $(srcdir) or $(top_srcdir) as part
>    of the path. When it does, it's usually bug in the package,
>    but unfortunately automake prevents it also when it's not.
>    Solution applied here is to simply remove TESTS.
>
>
> [PATCH 01/15] pkg-config: replace obsolete automake macros with
> [PATCH 02/15] libtool: remove help2man dependency
> [PATCH 03/15] bison: remove help2man dependency
> [PATCH 04/15] file: replace obsolete automake macros with working
> [PATCH 05/15] popt: disable tests
> [PATCH 06/15] glib-2.0: replace obsolete automake macros with
> [PATCH 07/15] libx11: disable tests
> [PATCH 08/15] libpng: replace obsolete automake macros with working
> [PATCH 09/15] libusb: replace obsolete automake macros with working
> [PATCH 10/15] pixman: replace obsolete automake macros with working
> [PATCH 11/15] libid3tag: replace obsolete automake macros with
> [PATCH 12/15] libgcrypt: replace obsolete automake macros with
> [PATCH 13/15] gnutls: replace obsolete automake macros with working
> [PATCH 14/15] libtasn1: remove help2man dependency
> [PATCH 15/15] flac: replace obsolete automake macros with working
>
I am reviewing these and will included them next week based on my reviews.

Any chance for the future, you can share a branch from either the Yocto 
Project Git (via poky-contrib) or an OE Git (via oe-core-contrib), 
please contact Michael@yoctoproject.org or Richard for git access. Or
you can use github or ...

Thanks
	Sau!
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