[Ltib] Problem trhing to add ATF package to LTIB

[Peter Barada]

Stuart,

I'm trying to add the ATF package (from http://www.netbsd.org/~jmmv/atf/), and I'm running int problems as ATF wants autoconf-2.60 or newer

I upgrade autoconf to version 2.65 (and are wondering what packages am I going to break in the process), but when I did that then expanded the ATF package to update its configure (since I need to fix it for cross-compliation to add in either a cross-compliation clause, or add in "--with" processing to allow the spec file to specify target capabilities, the process:

$ ./ltib -p atf -m prep
$ ./ltib -m shell
LTIB> cd rpm/BUILD/atf-0.7
LTIB> aclocal -I ./m4
LTIB> autoconf
LTIB> automake

It complains with:

configure.ac: required file `admin/mkinstalldirs' not found
configure.ac:49: require Automake 1.9, but have 1.7.6

I tried to update automake to 1.11.1, but part of automake's configure is to test for autoconf, and that's problematic since the preconfig build of automake occurs *before* autoconf is installed into /opt/ltib/usr/bin - the build errors out.  Is there anyway to break up the LTIBS contruction process to deploy the autoconf package *before* prep/build of automake to work around this?

I tried hacking automake to include a "SKIP_AUTOCONF_TESTS=y" to short out the autoconf tests (and supply my own answers), but this failed as well since other voodoo in automake needs some side-effects of the automake configure process that was skipped testing for autoconf's existance.

Worse, I tried to back up to the LTIB-supplied versions of autoconf/automak, and use external tools to do the autoconf/automake in atf, but that fails since atf's created configure needs to see those other tools to build.

Before I dig into this rathole much deeper, I'm wondering if anyone has run into problems trying to add a package that requires newer versions of autoconf/automake and how they solved it.

Thanks in advance!

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Peter Barada <address@hidden>
Logic Product Development, Inc.