[yocto] Make autotools use autogen.sh

2014-07-14 Thread Patrick Doyle
First off, I have no expertise whatsoever autotools at all. I know they exist. I know they make life simpler (somehow) for (some?) people. I shutter to think of ever trying to learn enough about how they work to learn that they would make my life simpler. But, I _do_ know how to run a shell

Re: [yocto] Make autotools use autogen.sh

2014-07-14 Thread Burton, Ross
On 14 July 2014 14:32, Patrick Doyle wpds...@gmail.com wrote: What is the best thing to do hereā€¦ Should I inherit autotools and override do_configure with my own version that just runs the (package supplied) autogen.sh? Is there a way for autotools to run automake --add-missing? So

Re: [yocto] Make autotools use autogen.sh

2014-07-14 Thread Patrick Doyle
Hi Ross, Thank you for answering. As we've been digging into it here, we've found: a) do_compile fails because make depends on INSTALL, because INSTALL is listed in the aravis_DATA list in Makefile.am. b) It appears (subject to further investigation) that autoreconf --install doesn't create the

Re: [yocto] Make autotools use autogen.sh

2014-07-14 Thread Burton, Ross
On 14 July 2014 16:31, Patrick Doyle wpds...@gmail.com wrote: a) do_compile fails because make depends on INSTALL, because INSTALL is listed in the aravis_DATA list in Makefile.am. That's silly. Why would you ever need the install instructions to be installed? Personally I'd patch that out

Re: [yocto] Make autotools use autogen.sh

2014-07-14 Thread Patrick Doyle
On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 11:39 AM, Burton, Ross ross.bur...@intel.com wrote: On 14 July 2014 16:31, Patrick Doyle wpds...@gmail.com wrote: a) do_compile fails because make depends on INSTALL, because INSTALL is listed in the aravis_DATA list in Makefile.am. That's silly. Why would you ever