[Buildroot] [uclinux-dist-devel] [PATCH] buildroot:package: Remove configure target parameter in Makefile.autotools.in

Mike Frysinger vapier.adi at gmail.com
Tue Feb 1 07:50:46 UTC 2011


On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 02:48, Zhang, Sonic wrote:
>Mike Frysinger:
>>On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 23:43, Sonic Zhang wrote:
>>> Some autotools based software packages generate prefix name to the
>>> binary after running install if you set --target parameter.
>>>
>>> For example:
>>> --target=arm
>>> rcp is rename to "linux-arm-rcp" after running install
>>
>>this is due to program_transform_name which is easily disabled:
>>    program_transform_name=
>
> Not only inetutils, but many other packages need "program_transform_name=" in this case. Because rare packages require --target to be set, why not do something to ease many?

personally, i prefer the route of fixing the underlying problem --
these packages should not have a --target unless they actually need
it.
-mike



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