Re: [oe] [PATCH 7/7] autoconf: remove automake patch enforcing --foreign

2014-07-15 Thread Burton, Ross
On 15 July 2014 21:14, Khem Raj wrote: > can it be somehow made such that it can be passed via option flags so we > dont have to patch the packages not using above automake macro Packages that don't use the right automake macro are generally very old and we're already carrying patches to fix the

Re: [oe] [PATCH 7/7] autoconf: remove automake patch enforcing --foreign

2014-07-15 Thread Khem Raj
On Jul 15, 2014 9:20 AM, "Ross Burton" wrote: > > Since 2004 we've been carrying a patch[1] make autoreconf pass --foreign to > automake. Presumably at the time this was due to many upstreams using > hand-coded bootstrap scripts that passed --foreign manually, but we were using > autoreconf. The

[oe] [PATCH 7/7] autoconf: remove automake patch enforcing --foreign

2014-07-15 Thread Ross Burton
Since 2004 we've been carrying a patch[1] make autoreconf pass --foreign to automake. Presumably at the time this was due to many upstreams using hand-coded bootstrap scripts that passed --foreign manually, but we were using autoreconf. These days many projects have added foreign to AM_INIT_AUTOM