[Buildroot] [for-next: 1/2] package/make: add host variant

[Romain Naour]

Hi Thomas,

Le 02/09/2018 à 09:39, Thomas Petazzoni a écrit :
> Hello,
> 
> On Sat, 1 Sep 2018 21:20:36 +0200, Romain Naour wrote:
> 
>> From [1]:
>> AC_CHECK_PROG_VER(MAKE, gnumake gmake make, --version,
>>   [GNU Make[^0-9]*\([0-9][0-9.]*\)],
>>   [3.79* | 3.[89]* | [4-9].* | [1-9][0-9]*], critic_missing="$critic_missing make")
>>
>> On your host (Fedora) you have a symlink to make named gmake (gmake -> make)
>>
>> You can verify that glibc is using gmake instead of make by looking at config.log.
>>
>> configure:4672: checking for gnumake
>> configure:4702: result: no
>> configure:4672: checking for gmake
>> configure:4688: found /usr/bin/gmake
>> configure:4699: result: gmake
>> configure:4714: checking version of gmake
>> configure:4724: result: 4.2.1, ok
> 
> OK.
> 
>> We can verify that glibc build-system is really using gmake:
>> ac_cv_prog_MAKE=gmake
>>
>> So if we want glibc build system to use the make binary provided by Buildroot we
>> must create gnumake and gmake symlink in $(HOST_DIR)/bin when installing host-make.
> 
> Or we can pass ac_cv_prog_MAKE=make. But OK, perhaps doing the symlinks
> is better.

Indeed (I tried with this solution) but I believe that creating gnumake and
gmake symlinks in HOST_DIR is more bulletproof. I don't know if another package
is trying to use gnumake or gmake.

> 
> Thanks for the explanation!

You're welcome!

Best regards,
Romain

> 
> Thomas
>