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authorRichard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>2011-08-03 16:06:43 +0100
committerRichard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>2011-08-03 17:40:23 +0100
commit6a4778e21341f031569f561e7699d2c616b60af0 (patch)
tree8e02fbde1e83283b2c8cbbd7f9b6fd35a257124b /meta/classes/autotools.bbclass
parent6def7129cf7580a935c05cc05b7f803812d5bb18 (diff)
downloadopenembedded-core-contrib-6a4778e21341f031569f561e7699d2c616b60af0.tar.gz
autotools.bbclass: Fix m4 file race
If something removes .m4 files from the aclocal directory whilst aclocal is running it gets upset. To avoid this we need to take a copy of the aclocal directory and build against this instead. [YOCTO #861] Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'meta/classes/autotools.bbclass')
-rw-r--r--meta/classes/autotools.bbclass7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/meta/classes/autotools.bbclass b/meta/classes/autotools.bbclass
index e5c13ae691..8f65b709fd 100644
--- a/meta/classes/autotools.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/autotools.bbclass
@@ -111,8 +111,13 @@ autotools_do_configure() {
if [ -d ${STAGING_DATADIR_NATIVE}/aclocal-$AUTOV ]; then
acpaths="$acpaths -I${STAGING_DATADIR_NATIVE}/aclocal-$AUTOV"
fi
+ # The aclocal directory could get modified by other processes
+ # uninstalling data from the sysroot. See Yocto #861 for details.
+ # We avoid this by taking a copy here and then files cannot disappear.
if [ -d ${STAGING_DATADIR}/aclocal ]; then
- acpaths="$acpaths -I ${STAGING_DATADIR}/aclocal"
+ mkdir -p ${B}/aclocal-copy/
+ cp ${STAGING_DATADIR}/aclocal/* ${B}/aclocal-copy/
+ acpaths="$acpaths -I ${B}/aclocal-copy/"
fi
# autoreconf is too shy to overwrite aclocal.m4 if it doesn't look
# like it was auto-generated. Work around this by blowing it away