Re: [Ltib] How do I generate a patch?

[Stuart Hughes]

Hi Eric,

You're right, patchmerge depends on distclean cleaning up properly.
Some packages don't behave.  Sometimes you can do a manual 'make clean'
or similar.

Regards, Stuart

Eric Nelson wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I ran into the same problem as reported in this Freescale forum:
>     
> http://forums.freescale.com/t5/i-MX-Microprocessors/iMX25-SDK-LTIB-error-with-Ubuntu/m-p/56368
> 
> 
> I'm also using a Freescale release and an Ubuntu dev station (10.04) and
> was
> attempting to build the FSL Gnome release package for i.MX5x.
> 
> I traced the problem down to gtkhtml-3.24.2/gtkhtml/Makefile.am, which
> includes
> /usr/include in the build, leaking host header files into the
> cross-compile:
> 
> INCLUDES =                 \
>     -I$(top_srcdir)            \
>     -I$(srcdir)            \
>     -I/usr/include            \
>     $(GTKHTML_CFLAGS)        \
> 
> Removing that line allowed my build to complete successfully.
> 
> I tried running ./ltib -m patchmerge -p gtkhtml but ended up with a huge
> patch
> that had nothing to do with removal of the line.
> 
> I'm presuming that this is because the 'distclean' target in gtkhtml isn't
> functioning properly, but since I'm a total ltib noob, that's a SWAG based
> on another comment on the ltib ML.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
> Eric Nelson
> 
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