[poky] non-upstreamed patches

[Colin Walters]

On Mon, 2011-11-14 at 19:56 +0000, Richard Purdie wrote:

> The number of people who write cross safe autogen.sh scripts which do
> everything we need is unfortunately low.

Can you elaborate on this?  What are some common cross-unsafe problems?

So concretely here with gtk-doc, since we don't actually want to build
the documentation (because gtk-doc is native only for the exact same
reasons gobject-introspection is, and we've talked about that one).

The GNOME autogen.sh scripts will run "gtkdocize", which pretty much
just copies in gtk-doc.make and gtk-doc.m4.  We could reimplement that
with dummy copies, or build a lobotomized gtk-doc (this will require
perl-native but that's about it I think).

I'm experimenting with this now.

>  I do appreciate the gnome
> community may do better than others and things are improving over time.
> I'd not yet at a point where I'd trust even 10% of the autogen.sh
> scripts out there though.

The other thing we could do I guess is make it opt-in, like
OE_RUN_AUTOGEN=1 or something in individual recipes using
autotools.bbclass?