Thanks Scott!
I've uploaded a fixed version of your patch to https://review.linaro.org/14757.
One needs to modify configure.ac and then re-generate configure by running
autoconf.
Once the patch is approved it will be merged into abe.
--
Maxim Kuvyrkov
www.linaro.org
> On Oct 14, 2016, at 1:38 PM, Scott Telford <stelf...@cadence.com> wrote:
>
> Just been trying to build the Linaro toolchain from source on RHEL 6.5. The
> ABE configure script fails to detect the packaging system on RHEL as it looks
> like RPM will only be detected if it's running on a Fedora system. This patch
> will instead detect RPM if the rpm binary is available (and it's not
> Debian/Ubuntu), like the test for Arch/pacman.
>
> diff --git a/configure b/configure
> index 42f787e..52ddd42 100755
> --- a/configure
> +++ b/configure
> @@ -3639,7 +3639,6 @@ fi
>
> # Figure out which packaging system is in use. Since it's possible to
> # install both on a system.
> -rpm="`uname -a | grep -ic '\.fc[0-9].\.'`"
> deb="`uname -a | grep -ic 'ubuntu'`"
> deb=$(($deb + `uname -a | grep -ic 'debian'`))
>
> @@ -3672,7 +3671,9 @@ $as_echo "yes" >&6; }
>
> ### RPM Packages ###
> else
> -if test ${rpm} -eq 1; then
> +rpm="`which rpm 2> /dev/null`"
> +result=$?
> +if test ${result} -eq 0; then
> packages="${packages} ncurses-devel python-devel"
> for i in ${packages}; do
> { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking if $i is installed"
> >
>
>
>
> Regards,
> Scott.
>
>
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