The autoconf stuff is all in a subdirectory, which is rather annoying as OE expects patches to be applied and autoconf stuff to be done in S. This adds enough autoconf at the top level to allow it to be called there - all it does is run a sub autoconf stuff in the src directory. Upstream-Status: Inappropriate [build system specific change] Index: rp-pppoe-3.8/Makefile.am =================================================================== --- /dev/null 1970-01-01 00:00:00.000000000 +0000 +++ rp-pppoe-3.8/Makefile.am 2007-06-08 15:58:16.000000000 +1000 @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +PACKAGE = rp-pppoe +VERSION = 3.8 + +dnl AM_CFLAGS = -Wall -DDEBUG +SUBDIRS = src Index: rp-pppoe-3.8/configure.in =================================================================== --- /dev/null 1970-01-01 00:00:00.000000000 +0000 +++ rp-pppoe-3.8/configure.in 2007-06-08 15:58:16.000000000 +1000 @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +AC_INIT(src/pppoe.c) +AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([rp-pppoe], [3.8]) +AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS(src) +AC_OUTPUT(Makefile)