On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 12:31:37PM -0700, Jordan Crouse wrote: > On 07/12/07 00:06 -0500, Corey Osgood wrote: > > Typo! That makes 2 mistakes this week! Are you feeling okay? :P > > This does look pretty good though, and the idea of having v3 in buildrom > > is great! I'm kicking myself now for never having used buildrom until > > yesterday, such a great tool. Did you ever track down the source of that > > __stack_chk_fail we discussed on IRC? > > Autoconf is very annoying, but as the inventor of OpenEmbedded once famously > said, "autoconf sucks, but at least we know how it sucks". However, no > amount of autoconf knowledge will save us from projects that further abuse > the already fragile scripts. In this case, we have mkelfimage committing > several crimes - 1) they overwrite incoming environment variables > in autoconf, thereby thwarting any possibility of us tweaking things from > the ouside, and
Yep, this should be fixed in mkelfimage, please notify the developers. > 2) they ship a version of the final configure script, which > forces us to patch both the configure.ac _and_ the configure script itself, Alternatively you could just patch configure.ac and run autoconf/automake etc. to regenerate the generated files, but I'm afraid that's pretty fragile too (different autoconf versions etc). Uwe. -- http://www.hermann-uwe.de | http://www.holsham-traders.de http://www.crazy-hacks.org | http://www.unmaintained-free-software.org -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios