[Buildroot] host-autoconf fails to build, no m4

[Atilla Filiz]

Hello Thomas

Doing a clean make solved the problem somehow. Before that `make host-m4`
was a no-op.

Regards
Atilla

On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 2:36 PM, Thomas Petazzoni <
thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> On Wed, 3 Aug 2016 14:26:21 +0200, Atilla Filiz wrote:
> > I was trying to build some host packages, which depend on automake and
> > autoconf, which in turn fail to build.
>
> Which version of Buildroot are you using?
>
> > /home/atilla/hek/buildroot/output/host/usr/bin/m4 simply doesn't exist
> and
>
> This is not possible:
>
> HOST_AUTOCONF_DEPENDENCIES = host-m4 host-libtool
>
> so host-autoconf depends on host-m4, so host-m4 *must* have been built
> prior to host-autoconf.
>
> > apparently the package m4 has been deprecated.
>
> The *target* variant of m4, yes. The host variant is still there and
> available.
>
> Could you pastebin your Buildroot .config file, as well as the *entire*
> build output of "make clean all" ?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Thomas
> --
> Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
> Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
> http://free-electrons.com
>



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Atilla Filiz
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