On 8/22/12 9:30 AM, Chris Larson wrote:
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 7:26 AM, Khem Raj <[email protected]> wrote:
diff --git 
a/meta/recipes-core/coreutils/coreutils-8.17/realpath-works-yes.patch 
b/meta/recipes-core/coreutils/coreutils-8.17/realpath-works-yes.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e32f612
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/coreutils/coreutils-8.17/realpath-works-yes.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+Signed-off-by: Radu Moisan <[email protected]>
+Upstream status: pending
+
+The new version of coreutils, adds use of canonicalize_file_name() function 
defined in canonicalize.h
+The problem: the function is redefined to rpl_canonicalize_file_name by means 
of a macro,which gives
+an undefined reference error at compile time. Macro definition depends in the 
end on
+gl_cv_func_realpath_works but assumed true only when set to "yes"
+
+Index: coreutils-8.17/m4/canonicalize.m4
+===================================================================
+--- coreutils-8.17.orig/m4/canonicalize.m4     2012-05-08 12:05:23.000000000 
+0300
++++ coreutils-8.17/m4/canonicalize.m4  2012-08-17 14:20:22.000000000 +0300
+@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@
+      [gl_cv_func_realpath_works=no],
+      [case "$host_os" in
+                 # Guess yes on glibc systems.
+-        *-gnu*) gl_cv_func_realpath_works="guessing yes" ;;
++        *-gnu*) gl_cv_func_realpath_works="yes" ;;
+                 # If we don't know, assume the worst.
+         *)      gl_cv_func_realpath_works="guessing no" ;;
+       esac
Wouldn't it be better to provide a cached test result in the site
files for this test, rather than relying on a host_os based guess?
I really don't know the answer to your question. The patch was intended to 
provide minimally invasive change to the original file. If you elaborate more 
on your proposal, I would gladly take into consideration a future patch to 
address this issue.


Add CACHED_CONFIGUREVARS in the recipe search in metadata for existing examples

That's a good route, but only if we know realpath works in 100% of
cases. Which, admittedly, one would certainly hope is the case :)


As far as I know realpath has worked well, for at least the last 6 years (likely much longer).

--Mark

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