Re: [ptxdist] Where do configure options for simple autotools packages come from?

["Jürgen Beisert" <jbe@pengutronix.de>]

Hi Sander,

On Tuesday 08 October 2013 14:44:29 Sander Stoks wrote:
> I am trying to understand how ptxdist decides which configuration options
> to pass.  My specific case is that I want to make a package for cifs-utils.
>  I could not find any rules file for this, but I read in the manual that if
> a source package is "autotoolized", i.e., contains a simple "configure"
> script, there is no need for a rules file

Where did you read there is "not need for a rule file"? Each package in PTXdist 
needs a rule file. The content of this rule may vary, depending on the 
package's build system.

> I assume it will simply call 
> ./configure, with the necessary parameters to enable cross compiling.
>
> However, it seems to add other things too, and I can't figure out where it
> finds these options.  When I do this:
>
> ptxdist prepare cifs-utils

As Marc has stated: there is already a cifs-utils package present in PTXdist. 
That is why it works in your case.

Regards,
Juergen

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