We already DEPEND on the native texinfo being present before building so there isn't any need to try and build the required native texinfo binaries before cross-compiling. This simplifies the recipe somewhat! Upstream-Status: Inappropriate oe specific Signed-off-by: Joshua Lock Index: texinfo-4.13/configure.ac =================================================================== --- texinfo-4.13.orig/configure.ac +++ texinfo-4.13/configure.ac @@ -100,29 +100,7 @@ AC_CANONICAL_BUILD # $native_tools is also added to SUBDIRS in the main Makefile.am, # so that make compiles the native tools first. # -if test "$cross_compiling" = no; then - native_tools= -else - native_tools=tools - test -d "$native_tools" || mkdir "$native_tools" - confdir=`(cd "$srcdir";pwd)` - # Make sure the secondary configure won't fail with - # "error: source directory already configured". - rm -f config.status - AC_MSG_NOTICE([[Doing configure of native tools (${build}).]]) - cd "$native_tools" || exit 1 - # Run secondary configure in alternate environment or - # it gets the wrong CC etc. - # env -i gives this build host configure a clean environment; - # consequently, we have to re-initialize $PATH. - env -i CC="$BUILD_CC" AR="$BUILD_AR" RANLIB="$BUILD_RANLIB" \ - PATH="$PATH" \ - tools_only=1 \ - ${confdir}/configure --build=${build} --host=${build} \ - --disable-rpath --disable-nls - cd .. || exit 1 - AC_MSG_NOTICE([[Continuing with main configure (${host}).]]) -fi +native_tools= AC_SUBST(native_tools) AM_CONDITIONAL(TOOLS_ONLY, [[test "x$tools_only" = x1]])