From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mga11.intel.com ([192.55.52.93]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TrBqQ-0007BW-Nm for openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org; Fri, 04 Jan 2013 19:18:23 +0100 Received: from fmsmga001.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.23]) by fmsmga102.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 04 Jan 2013 10:03:08 -0800 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,411,1355126400"; d="scan'208";a="270020548" Received: from unknown (HELO [10.255.14.97]) ([10.255.14.97]) by fmsmga001.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 04 Jan 2013 10:03:06 -0800 Message-ID: <50E71957.2020901@linux.intel.com> Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2013 10:03:03 -0800 From: Saul Wold User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Thunderbird/17.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marko Lindqvist References: <1357245391-11055-1-git-send-email-cazfi74@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1357245391-11055-1-git-send-email-cazfi74@gmail.com> Cc: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org Subject: Re: Prepare recipes for automake-1.13 (batch 1) X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2013 18:18:23 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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! > _______________________________________________ > Openembedded-core mailing list > Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org > http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core >