man-db: fix broken requirement for flex

Normally flex-native in the sysroot via the toolchain, but different
toolchains may not depend on flex-native (eg, external-arm-toolchain).

This results in a configure error:

  checking for flex... no
  configure: error: flex is required when building from revision control

Now we're not building from revision control, but the configure script
is broken with out-of-tree builds and checks the (empty) build tree for
pre-generated sources.  Apply a fix to look in the source tree instead.

(From OE-Core rev: 544d8ee19b5ac74a841722a3e000019d2e6ab4f8)

Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.burton@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.burton@arm.com>

2 files changed, 37 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/man-db/files/flex.patch b/meta/recipes-extended/man-db/files/flex.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c18be7e36a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/man-db/files/flex.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+From d3f7c160bddf5d879c74e19e4f577882e8b22559 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Ross Burton <ross.burton@arm.com>
+Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2025 14:16:48 +0000
+Subject: [PATCH] configure: check for shipped generated sources in source
+ directory
+
+The configure script fails if it can't find flex and the pregenerated
+source code isn't available, as is the case in builds from git whereas
+tarballs include the code.
+
+However this breaks with out-of-tree builds, where cwd during configure
+is the build directory not the source directory, and the pregenerated
+sources will always be inside the source directory.
+
+Upstream-Status: Submitted [https://gitlab.com/man-db/man-db/-/merge_requests/12]
+Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.burton@arm.com>
+---
+ configure.ac | 2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
+index 7e9148fb..49a213fd 100644
+--- a/configure.ac
++++ b/configure.ac
+@@ -380,7 +380,7 @@ dnl To add more decompressors just follow the scheme above.
+ dnl The "noyywrap" argument is new in Autoconf 2.70, but this also works
+ dnl fine with older versions that ignore the argument.
+ AC_PROG_LEX([noyywrap])
+-if test "$LEX" = ":" && (test ! -e src/lexgrog.c || test ! -e src/zsoelim.c)
++if test "$LEX" = ":" && (test ! -e $srcdir/src/lexgrog.c || test ! -e $srcdir/src/zsoelim.c)
+ then
+        AC_MSG_ERROR([flex is required when building from revision control])
+ fi
+-- 
+2.43.0
+
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/man-db/man-db_2.13.0.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/man-db/man-db_2.13.0.bb
index 2fa18a8f24..2178239bb6 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/man-db/man-db_2.13.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/man-db/man-db_2.13.0.bb
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=1ebbd3e34237af26da5dc08a4e440464 \
                    "
 
 SRC_URI = "${SAVANNAH_NONGNU_MIRROR}/man-db/man-db-${PV}.tar.xz \
+           file://flex.patch \
            file://99_mandb \
           "
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "82f0739f4f61aab5eb937d234de3b014e777b5538a28cbd31433c45ae09aefb9"