[Buildroot] [PATCH] linknx: select libcurl to fix autoreconf

[Baruch Siach]

Hi Thomas,

On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 03:05:49PM +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Mar 2016 21:38:28 +0200, Baruch Siach wrote:
> > linknx configure.ac uses the LIBCURL_CHECK_CONFIG macro that is only defined
> > in libcurl.m4 that is part of libcurl. Select libcurl for now to fix
> > autoreconf.
> > 
> > Fixes:
> > http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/96e/96e9ae0df7ebb7ad3d748a6b518cc59570e0b995/
> > http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/179/17971c9f8925ff8623a7d97aac8eda0c287a76c9/
> > http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/2a8/2a8af93d6439b313b048ccac7b6cfecbb6baff55/
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Baruch Siach <baruch at tkos.co.il>
> 
> It's not super nice to have to add this mandatory dependency for
> autoreconf, but we indeed don't really have the choice. We should
> remember to revert this patch once the linknx patch gets merged
> upstream, and we bump the version. However, it seems like linknx is not
> super active upstream, so in fact things might just stay forever as they
> are today. Oh well.

A possible alternative is to have a local copy of libcurl.m4 for linknx, 
either in a patch or standalone. Would you prefer that?

baruch

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