On 01/20/2014 10:04 AM, Baruch Siach wrote: > Hi Pádraig, > On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 09:38:38AM +0000, Pádraig Brady wrote: >> On 01/20/2014 08:53 AM, Baruch Siach wrote: >>> On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 11:46:18AM +0000, Pádraig Brady wrote: >>>> On 01/19/2014 09:33 AM, Baruch Siach wrote: >>>>> I see this patch now in git. But this patch alone, even when combined >>>>> with the >>>>> following one (9a115f3e24), doesn't fix the build when applied on top of >>>>> 8.21 >>>>> (the current Buildroot version). Is there anything missing? Should I >>>>> rerun >>>>> ./bootstrap? >>>> >>>> Yes you need to rerun bootstrap when running from the git tree. >>>> To get a tarball for use out of that the handiest is `make dist` >>> >>> I tried 'make dist' in the tarball, but I get: >>> >>> make[1]: *** No rule to make target `dist'. Stop. >>> >>> Where is the 'dist' target defined? >> >> This should work and does here: >> ./bootstrap && ./configure --quiet && make >> make dist > > Thanks. This solution, however, doesn't integrate very well with the way > Buildroot works. First, buildroot uses tarballs, so I had to add '--force' to > ./bootstrap to suppress a scary warning. Seconds, ./bootstrap uses git > directly to download a gnulib version, bypassing the Buildroot git download > infrastructure.
Right, above were instructions for generating the _tarball_ I.E. if you wanted to do your own personal release. If you want to use official release tarballs then the previous solution I provided of the direct patch to spawn_h.m4 is best. thanks, Pádraig.
