On 21 April 2014 07:18, john.liuli <john.li...@huawei.com> wrote:
> libfdt_env.h is missing in some stable installs (<1.3.0-3),
> some released linux distributions(e.g. Ubuntu 12.04) depending
> on it still complain missing libfdt even if already installed.
> So give more detailed hint for such OS users.
>
> Signed-off-by: Liu Li <john.li...@huawei.com>
> ---
>  configure |    4 +++-
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/configure b/configure
> index 69b9f56..6fe80e0 100755
> --- a/configure
> +++ b/configure
> @@ -2949,7 +2949,9 @@ EOF
>    elif test "$fdt" = "yes" ; then
>      # have neither and want - prompt for system/submodule install
>      error_exit "DTC (libfdt) not present. Your options:" \
> -        "  (1) Preferred: Install the DTC (libfdt) devel package" \
> +        "  (1) Preferred: Install the DTC (libfdt) devel package," \
> +        "      old version(<1.3.0-3) lost libfdt_env.h, so need" \
> +        "      to be fixed manually after installation" \

1.3.0-3 is an Ubuntu version, not an upstream one, isn't it?

We could just update the first line to say "libfdt not present or too old".
I agree with Markus that we should definitely not be suggesting
that users manually mess with trying to fix up their distro's package.

>          "  (2) Fetch the DTC submodule, using:" \
>          "      git submodule update --init dtc"
>    else

thanks
-- PMM

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