From: Saul Wold <sgw@linux.intel.com>
To: Marko Lindqvist <cazfi74@gmail.com>
Cc: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: Prepare recipes for automake-1.13 (batch 1)
Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2013 14:21:50 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50E755FE.90604@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1357245391-11055-1-git-send-email-cazfi74@gmail.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.
>
So these need the automake-1.13 update first? I have the 1.12 version
but have not seen the 1.13 version yet.
Just want to confirm that.
Thanks
Sau!
> * 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
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-04 22:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-03 20:36 Prepare recipes for automake-1.13 (batch 1) Marko Lindqvist
2013-01-03 20:36 ` [PATCH 01/15] pkg-config: replace obsolete automake macros with working ones Marko Lindqvist
2013-01-03 20:36 ` [PATCH 02/15] libtool: remove help2man dependency Marko Lindqvist
2013-01-03 20:36 ` [PATCH 03/15] bison: " Marko Lindqvist
2013-01-03 20:36 ` [PATCH 04/15] file: replace obsolete automake macros with working ones Marko Lindqvist
2013-01-03 20:36 ` [PATCH 05/15] popt: disable tests Marko Lindqvist
2013-01-03 20:36 ` [PATCH 06/15] glib-2.0: replace obsolete automake macros with working ones Marko Lindqvist
2013-01-03 20:36 ` [PATCH 07/15] libx11: disable tests Marko Lindqvist
2013-01-03 20:36 ` [PATCH 08/15] libpng: replace obsolete automake macros with working ones Marko Lindqvist
2013-01-03 20:36 ` [PATCH 09/15] libusb: " Marko Lindqvist
2013-01-03 20:36 ` [PATCH 10/15] pixman: " Marko Lindqvist
2013-01-03 20:36 ` [PATCH 11/15] libid3tag: " Marko Lindqvist
2013-01-03 20:36 ` [PATCH 12/15] libgcrypt: " Marko Lindqvist
2013-01-03 20:36 ` [PATCH 13/15] gnutls: " Marko Lindqvist
2013-01-03 20:36 ` [PATCH 14/15] libtasn1: remove help2man dependency Marko Lindqvist
2013-01-03 20:36 ` [PATCH 15/15] flac: replace obsolete automake macros with working ones Marko Lindqvist
2013-01-03 21:22 ` [PATCH 05/15] popt: disable tests Ross Burton
2013-01-03 21:49 ` Marko Lindqvist
2013-01-03 22:20 ` Marko Lindqvist
2013-01-04 18:08 ` [PATCH 04/15] file: replace obsolete automake macros with working ones Saul Wold
[not found] ` <CAF6bG8d=vOeaS4agL0cw1NBsqC4iZhyQWspTMkVp6NDpm0GiYg@mail.gmail.com>
2013-01-06 22:59 ` Marko Lindqvist
2013-01-04 18:03 ` Prepare recipes for automake-1.13 (batch 1) Saul Wold
2013-01-04 22:21 ` Saul Wold [this message]
2013-01-04 22:42 ` Marko Lindqvist
2013-01-04 23:11 ` Marko Lindqvist
2013-01-04 23:30 ` Saul Wold
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