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

Burton, Ross ross.burton at intel.com
Tue Apr 9 03:16:49 PDT 2019


On Tue, 9 Apr 2019 at 11:14, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
>   so, to confirm what i thought, this is a bug in gnulib which
> suggests i should dig through the build configuration to see where i
> can, say, set a PREFERRED_VERSION of a newer version of gnulib that
> no longer has tat bug? or, barring that, just add the appropriate
> local patch on my end.

No, gnulib is a copy/paste library.  The bug was fixed in gnulib, and
new releases of m4 are fixed, but you'll need to cherry-pick the fix
from oe-core master (we apply the patch to our m4 recipe) back to
whatever stable branch you're using.

Ross


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