[yocto] m4-mative: "Please port gnulib fseeko.c to your platform!"

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Mon, 8 Apr 2019, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

>
>   a few months ago, i ran into (and asked about) a failure building
> m4-native that you can read here:
>
> https://yocto.yoctoproject.narkive.com/6KyM5UvS/m4-native-zedboard-please-port-gnulib-fseeko-c-to-your-platform
>
> first, i will admit i'm not sure where the fault lies -- is it m4, or
> gnulib, or glibc, and whose responsibility is it to fix what. i'll be
> honest -- i don't understand what the bug is or who should be
> resolving it.
>
>   i ask all this as i just had *exactly* the same error trying to
> build agl-image-minimal with the AGL code base. what is the proper
> solution to this? BTW, i'm trying this on fedora 30 branched, so this
> is definitely not a supported build distro, but i'm still curious as
> to what would be the proper fix.
>
>   finally, it occurs to me that, if building a native package like
> "m4" fails, would it be a reasonable workaround to simply say
>
>   ASSUME_PROVIDED += "m4"
>
> for the time being, to avoid having to build it until i know what the
> proper fix is?

  trying ASSUME_PROVIDED didn't work all that well, either ...

...
| autom4te: need GNU m4 1.4 or later: m4
| make[2]: *** [Makefile:641: autoconf.in] Error 1
...

  that's just weird as my installed version of m4 is 1.4.18, precisely
the version AGL is trying to build. i'm confused.

rday

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