Re: Configure errors under yocto

[Colin Helliwell <colin helliwell ln-systems com>]

> On 29 March 2017 at 19:58 Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2017-03-29 at 16:52 +0100, Colin Helliwell wrote:
>
> > > On 29 March 2017 at 15:13 Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wed, 2017-03-29 at 14:32 +0100, Colin Helliwell wrote:
> > >
> > > > > > On 27 March 2017 at 14:25 Colin Helliwell <colin.helliwell@ln -sys tems.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > ...
> > > >
> > > > > > ... but still have subsequent errors which seem to have been
> > > > > > due
> > > > > > to output directories not having been created e.g. libnm-
> > > > > > core,
> > > > > > introspection.
> > > > > > I can get it to limp a little further by creating the
> > > > > > directories
> > > > > > in the pre-configure, but not totally.
> > > > > > Something perhaps not hooked in right to cater for the build
> > > > > > directory being different to the source directory...?
> > > >
> > > > May I contribute the attached patch for building-outside-source-
> > > > directory? Well, as a starting point, at least - there may be
> > > > other
> > > > build targets which could benefit from a similar mod, but I'm
> > > > building with my own (reduced) feature set, so I may not being
> > > > seeing
> > > > all of them.
> > > > Hopefully it helps though.
> > >
> > > NM should support "srcdir != builddir" already, but sometimes bugs
> > > creep into the makefiles. What specific error are you getting from
> > > the
> > > build process?

Ah, I see the reason for the confusion now - my patch is on 1.6, and I see that the changes (and possibly 
some others) are already in the master version!

> Does this patch make anything better?
>
> diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
> index bacc616..1b9a2b4 100644
> --- a/Makefile.am
> +++ b/Makefile.am
> @@ -586,12 +586,12 @@ EXTRA_DIST += \
>  libnm-core/crypto_nss.c
>
> libnm-core/nm-vpn-dbus-types.xml: libnm-core/nm-vpn-dbus-interface.h tools/enums-to-docbook.pl
>
> *   @$(MKDIR_P) libnm-core/
> *   $(AM_V_GEN) @PERL@ $(srcdir)/tools/enums-to-docbook.pl 'nm-vpn-dbus-types' 'VPN Plugin D-Bus API Types' 
> $< >$@
>
> *   @$(MKDIR_P) $(top_builddir)/libnm-core/
> *   $(AM_V_GEN) @PERL@ $(srcdir)/tools/enums-to-docbook.pl 'nm-vpn-dbus-types' 'VPN Plugin D-Bus API Types' 
> $< >$(top_builddir)/$@
>
>     libnm-core/nm-dbus-types.xml: libnm-core/nm-dbus-interface.h tools/enums-to-docbook.pl
>
> *   @$(MKDIR_P) libnm-core/
> *   $(AM_V_GEN) @PERL@ $(srcdir)/tools/enums-to-docbook.pl 'nm-dbus-types' 'NetworkManager D-Bus API Types' 
> $< >$@
>
> *   @$(MKDIR_P) $(top_builddir)/libnm-core/
> *   $(AM_V_GEN) @PERL@ $(srcdir)/tools/enums-to-docbook.pl 'nm-dbus-types' 'NetworkManager D-Bus API Types' 
> $< >$(top_builddir)/$@
>
>     BUILT_SOURCES += \
> libnm-core/nm-vpn-dbus-types.xml \