[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] host-autoconf-archive: install to a non-standard location

[Peter Korsgaard]

>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> writes:

 > The host-autoconf-archive package was added to provide the necessary
 > autoconf macros for the libsigrok package, and later also used for the
 > thrift package.

 > However, it installs its autoconf macro in
 > $(HOST_DIR)/usr/share/aclocal, which is part of the include directory
 > of autoconf macros used for all autoreconf invocations. Unfortunately,
 > using those macros for all packages is causing a number of
 > regressions: one on host-ola fixed in commit
 > 884af65fd5ddc548f19a26162f905a32ef0b53b3, and one in snmpp. Those
 > packages are autoreconf'ed, but if they are autoreconf'ed with the
 > autoconf-archive macros installed, they no longer work.

 > To solve this problem, this commit implements a simple solution that
 > makes using host-autoconf-archive macros an opt-in mechanism. To
 > achieve this, the autoconf-archive package is modified to install its
 > macros in a special directory, and only the packages that really want
 > to use those macros will have to pass a -I flag pointing to this
 > directory in their <pkg>_AUTORECONF_OPTS variable.

 > Fixes:

 >   http://autobuild.buildroot.org/results/712/712c8083b9eeafa41b60790961028c40b28f59ad/

 > Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>

Committed, thanks.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard