[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] open-lldp: new package

[Yegor Yefremov]

On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 11:38 PM, Thomas Petazzoni
<thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Fri, 12 Jan 2018 22:29:44 +0100, Yegor Yefremov wrote:
>
>> > So instead, please keep <pkg>_AUTORECONF = YES, and if the missing m4
>> > folder is the only problem (but I doubt it because the bootstrap.sh
>> > script doesn't create it), then add a post-extract hook that creates
>> > the m4 file.
>>
>> bootstrap.sh doesn't create m4 folder, but if you just clone the
>> open-lldp repo and invoke "autoreconf -i", it would just complain
>> about missing m4 folder, but create it. In BR environment we get an
>> error. We had similar situation earlier with some other package
>> (libsoc) and I coudn't find the case of the problem, so I just added
>> m4 upstream and now it is working.
>
> Interesting, I never realized that. After a bit of experiment, it seems
> like passing a -I option makes a difference:
>
> thomas at windsurf:~/projets/open-lldp (master)$ autoreconf -f -i -I "/home/thomas/projets/buildroot/output/host/arm-buildroot-linux-uclibcgnueabi/sysroot/usr/share/aclocal" -I "/home/thomas/projets/buildroot/output/host/share/aclocal"
> aclocal: error: couldn't open directory 'm4': No such file or directory
> autoreconf: aclocal failed with exit status: 1
> thomas at windsurf:~/projets/open-lldp (master)$ autoreconf -f -i -I "/home/thomas/projets/buildroot/output/host/arm-buildroot-linux-uclibcgnueabi/sysroot/usr/share/aclocal"
> aclocal: error: couldn't open directory 'm4': No such file or directory
> autoreconf: aclocal failed with exit status: 1
> thomas at windsurf:~/projets/open-lldp (master)$ autoreconf -f -i  -I "/home/thomas/projets/buildroot/output/host/share/aclocal"
> aclocal: error: couldn't open directory 'm4': No such file or directory
> autoreconf: aclocal failed with exit status: 1
> thomas at windsurf:~/projets/open-lldp (master)$ autoreconf -f -i
> aclocal: warning: couldn't open directory 'm4': No such file or directory
> libtoolize: putting auxiliary files in '.'.
> libtoolize: copying file './ltmain.sh'
> libtoolize: putting macros in AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS, 'm4'.
> libtoolize: copying file 'm4/libtool.m4'
> libtoolize: copying file 'm4/ltoptions.m4'
> libtoolize: copying file 'm4/ltsugar.m4'
> libtoolize: copying file 'm4/ltversion.m4'
> libtoolize: copying file 'm4/lt~obsolete.m4'
> configure.ac:5: installing './ar-lib'
> configure.ac:5: installing './compile'
> configure.ac:19: installing './config.guess'
> configure.ac:19: installing './config.sub'
> configure.ac:2: installing './install-sh'
> configure.ac:2: installing './missing'
> Makefile.am: installing './depcomp'
>
> Even more funny:
>
> thomas at windsurf:~/projets/open-lldp (master)$ mkdir /tmp/foo
> thomas at windsurf:~/projets/open-lldp (master)$ autoreconf -f -i  -I /tmp/foo/
> aclocal: error: couldn't open directory 'm4': No such file or directory
> autoreconf: aclocal failed with exit status: 1
>
> Not sure what's going on here :)

Have found this discussion: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=901333