Re: [Ltib] what is the need for the autoconf tools in /opt/ltib/usr/bin?

[Stuart Hughes]

Hi  Peter,

Many questions, see inline:

On 27/10/11 16:02, Peter Barada wrote:
> On 10/27/2011 04:13 AM, Stuart Hughes wrote:
> > Hi  Jurgen,
> >
> > I think in your case you may need to adjust your PATH variable in the
> > .spec file when running configure so that you pick up your hosts
> > autotools for this package.
> >
> > Unfortunately there is a need for the autotools in /opt/ltib/...
> > although I can't recall which package needs it (I do have notes
> > somewhere though).
> Is there any chance of updating git in LTIB?  The version in git is 
> really old compared to current versions distributed with Ubuntu, and 
> it causes problems when trying to use git to pull out branches of a 
> packages while building (i.e. building a package from an SCM as 
> opposed to from tarball/patches).

Yes, I don't think that would break anything.

> Also bison and flex in LTIB are also quite old and cause problems when 
> building hostapd and libnl-2.0 to bring up soft AP wireless systems...
Unfortunately from what I remember, there are other packages that need 
these versions, which is why they got put into /opt/ltib.  Can't 
completely remember if both has package dependencies or not.

> Granted I know I'm in a breadline begging for toast, but how can I 
> teach ltib to remove a host package if its no longer called out for in 
> config/userspace/ltib.preconfig? Then it should be relatively easy to 
> disable flex/bison and add them to pre_install_deps, remove 
> .host_wait_warning* and the next "./ltib" should clean things up in 
> /opt/ltib/user/bin...

You can run ./ltib --hostcf --configure and that will let you configure 
what goes into the host support packages without having to touch 
.host_wait_*

Be warned though that because it goes through the config system, the 
dependencies for packages get evaluated, so some other packages you 
didn't expect may get pulled in.

Note: with --hostcf, you can do all the normal ltib stuff, with a few 
provisos.

> Thanks in advance!
Regards, Stuart