[Buildroot] [RFC PATCH 1/1] pkg-autotools: generic configure fix for powerpc64

Sam Bobroff sam.bobroff at au1.ibm.com
Fri Nov 18 03:56:25 UTC 2016


[snip]

> > > +suffix=.powerpc64.orig
> > 
> > Do we really want to keep the original files?
> 
> Well, no, but now that you mention it, what about this idea:
> 
> Use the patch backup file as a way to see if the patch has been applied
> already and if it has been, skip patching.
> 
> At the moment, if you interrupt the configure process (which is quite
> long) and then re-run the build, it will fail because the patching
> fails.

^--- I've realised that this is wrong, and I should just remove the
backup file. If configure is already patched, it isn't detected as
needing a patch so this problem doesn't happen!

Cheers,
Sam.




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