Re: [OE-core] [PATCH] autotools: Remove special handling for autoconf* and automake*

2012-09-24 Thread Richard Purdie
On Sat, 2012-09-22 at 17:18 +0100, Phil Blundell wrote: > For reasons that are now shrouded in obscurity, autotools.bbclass > has long contained a special heuristic to avoid attempting to run > autoreconf when building autoconf or automake themselves. However, > the wildcard test against PN which

Re: [OE-core] [PATCH] autotools: Remove special handling for autoconf* and automake*

2012-09-22 Thread Chris Larson
On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 9:18 AM, Phil Blundell wrote: > For reasons that are now shrouded in obscurity, autotools.bbclass > has long contained a special heuristic to avoid attempting to run > autoreconf when building autoconf or automake themselves. However, > the wildcard test against PN which i

[OE-core] [PATCH] autotools: Remove special handling for autoconf* and automake*

2012-09-22 Thread Phil Blundell
For reasons that are now shrouded in obscurity, autotools.bbclass has long contained a special heuristic to avoid attempting to run autoreconf when building autoconf or automake themselves. However, the wildcard test against PN which is used there is problematic when trying to build another packag