[Buildroot] [PATCH] kmod: add host-automake dependency

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Dear Vicente Olivert Riera,

On Fri, 10 Oct 2014 09:40:55 +0100, Vicente Olivert Riera wrote:
> kmod can fail to build in systems which have old automake versions like
> CentOS 6.5, for instance. It will cause an error like this one:
> 
> /buildroot/output/build/kmod-18/build-aux/missing: line 81:
> aclocal-1.14: command not found
> 
> Adding host-automake as a dependency fixes the problem.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vicente Olivert Riera <Vincent.Riera at imgtec.com>
> Reviewed-by: Markos Chandras <Markos.Chandras at imgtec.com>
> ---
>  package/kmod/kmod.mk |    4 ++--
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/package/kmod/kmod.mk b/package/kmod/kmod.mk
> index 1f170dd..c0212bb 100644
> --- a/package/kmod/kmod.mk
> +++ b/package/kmod/kmod.mk
> @@ -8,8 +8,8 @@ KMOD_VERSION = 18
>  KMOD_SOURCE = kmod-$(KMOD_VERSION).tar.xz
>  KMOD_SITE = $(BR2_KERNEL_MIRROR)/linux/utils/kernel/kmod
>  KMOD_INSTALL_STAGING = YES
> -KMOD_DEPENDENCIES = host-pkgconf
> -HOST_KMOD_DEPENDENCIES = host-pkgconf
> +KMOD_DEPENDENCIES = host-automake host-pkgconf
> +HOST_KMOD_DEPENDENCIES = host-automake host-pkgconf
>  
>  # license info for libkmod only, conditionally add more below
>  KMOD_LICENSE = LGPLv2.1+

This seems wrong. Why not use KMOD_AUTORECONF = YES instead?

Thomas
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