[LinuxBIOS] Expand linuxbiosv3 support

Corey Osgood corey.osgood at gmail.com
Mon Dec 10 19:53:36 CET 2007


Jordan Crouse wrote:
> On 07/12/07 00:06 -0500, Corey Osgood wrote:
>   
>> Typo! That makes 2 mistakes this week!  Are you feeling okay? :P
>> This does look pretty good though, and the idea of having v3 in buildrom
>> is great! I'm kicking myself now for never having used buildrom until
>> yesterday, such a great tool. Did you ever track down the source of that
>> __stack_chk_fail we discussed on IRC?
>>     
>
> Autoconf is very annoying, but as the inventor of OpenEmbedded once famously
> said, "autoconf sucks, but at least we know how it sucks".  However, no
> amount of autoconf knowledge will save us from projects that further abuse
> the already fragile scripts.   In this case, we have mkelfimage committing
> several crimes - 1) they overwrite incoming environment variables
> in autoconf, thereby thwarting any possibility of us tweaking things from
> the ouside, and 2) they ship a version of the final configure script, which
> forces us to patch both the configure.ac _and_ the configure script itself,
> which makes this patch much, much larger then it should be.  Please, 
> all you budding developers out there - take heed. <end rant>
>
> Okay - here is the patch against buildrom - it fixes my ills, but I need
> another tester before I'll consider it good.
>   
Acked-by: Corey Osgood <corey.osgood at gmail.com>




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