[yocto] Problems with 'configure' on own recipe [after moving to morty]

[Colin Helliwell]

> On 25 July 2017 at 15:20 "Burton, Ross" <ross.burton at intel.com> wrote:
> 
> On 25 July 2017 at 15:08, <colin.helliwell at ln-systems.com> wrote:
> 
> > This is gonna be a bit of a hard one to describe concisely, but hoping
> >  someone can advise me on solving it....
> >  I have a recipe of my own for an app (NetworkManager) which fetches the
> >  source from its git repo. This recipe works on krogoth, but is throwing up
> >  configure errors on morty.
> 
> For a start, why not use the recipe from meta-oe?
> 

That is in fact what I blagged as the starting point for 'my' recipe, but then evolved it so as to use the github head. For my particular [embedded] platform I also need to switch off some of the configure options.

> > The recipe has a
> >  do_configure_prepend() {
> >      ( cd ${S} ; NOCONFIGURE=yes ./autogen.sh )
> >  }
> >    - I seemed to need this because the git source has no ABOUT-NLS; not sure
> >  if that's the correct fix, but 'it seemed to work' before.
> 
> If the only thing that is missing is an ABOUT-NLS file (sounds like something gettext should have installed?) then I'd just have a prepend that touches that file, and let autotools.bbclass invoke autoreconf for you.

I'll try that

> 
> > I'm also getting a lot of:
> >  | NOTE: Skipping setscene dependency
> >  virtual:native:/home/colin/100051-trunk/fsl-community-bsp/sources/poky/meta/
> >  recipes-devtools/pseudo/pseudo_1.8.1.bb:do_populate_sysroot for m4 macro
> >  copying
> > 
> >    - not sure if this is relevant/important
> > 
> >  Freely admit I'm no autotools expert, so any suggestions welcome! Thanks
> 
> That's just verbose logging from the recipe-specific-sysroot code, you can ignore it.
> 

Ok, ta