autoconf: remove deprecated target package

The autoconf support on target has been deprecated for more than four
buildroot releases and thus can be removed. This doesn't change anything
about the host autoconf support.

Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>

diff --git a/Config.in.legacy b/Config.in.legacy
index 09e12878da16c1f574c06a6bf8550c5d8890fb0a..ef81da3b13c9edba7705f54742c65c77fcc8c97a 100644 (file)
--- a/Config.in.legacy
+++ b/Config.in.legacy
@@ -119,6 +119,14 @@ config BR2_sh3eb
          Due to an inexistent user base and generally poor Linux
          support, the support for the SH3eb architecture was removed.
 
+config BR2_PACKAGE_AUTOCONF
+       bool "autoconf target package has been removed"
+       select BR2_LEGACY
+       help
+         The 'autoconf' target package has been removed since it has been
+         deprecated for more than four buildroot releases.
+         Note: the host autoconf still exists.
+
 config BR2_PACKAGE_XSTROKE
        bool "xstroke has been removed"
        select BR2_LEGACY

diff --git a/package/Config.in b/package/Config.in
index 5c558d5713d6e9dfe898954b99954148f9e5028e..d3896e4bdb18c6b230910611f29d754936299955 100644 (file)
--- a/package/Config.in
+++ b/package/Config.in
@@ -81,7 +81,6 @@ source "package/whetstone/Config.in"
 endmenu
 
 menu "Development tools"
-source "package/autoconf/Config.in"
 source "package/automake/Config.in"
 source "package/binutils/Config.in"
 source "package/bison/Config.in"

diff --git a/package/autoconf/Config.in b/package/autoconf/Config.in
deleted file mode 100644 (file)
index 27f24e4..0000000
--- a/package/autoconf/Config.in
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-config BR2_PACKAGE_AUTOCONF
-       bool "autoconf"
-       # We no longer support a toolchain on the target
-       depends on BR2_DEPRECATED_SINCE_2012_11
-       select BR2_PACKAGE_PERL
-       help
-         Extensible program for developing configure scripts.  These
-         scripts handle all the mundane system/feature detection.
-
-         http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/

diff --git a/package/autoconf/autoconf.mk b/package/autoconf/autoconf.mk
index e70aa391eb032f0d1e992c1f2d4fb5acea073a9c..027f7acbc3f96225a987104af7f14f56251f6703 100644 (file)
--- a/package/autoconf/autoconf.mk
+++ b/package/autoconf/autoconf.mk
@@ -11,17 +11,11 @@ AUTOCONF_SITE = $(BR2_GNU_MIRROR)/autoconf
 AUTOCONF_LICENSE = GPLv3+ with exceptions
 AUTOCONF_LICENSE_FILES = COPYINGv3 COPYING.EXCEPTION
 
-AUTOCONF_CONF_ENV = EMACS="no" ac_cv_path_M4=$(HOST_DIR)/usr/bin/m4 \
-                   ac_cv_prog_gnu_m4_gnu=no
-
-AUTOCONF_DEPENDENCIES = host-m4 perl
-
 HOST_AUTOCONF_CONF_ENV = EMACS="no" ac_cv_path_M4=$(HOST_DIR)/usr/bin/m4 \
                        ac_cv_prog_gnu_m4_gnu=no
 
 HOST_AUTOCONF_DEPENDENCIES = host-m4 host-libtool
 
-$(eval $(autotools-package))
 $(eval $(host-autotools-package))
 
 # variables used by other packages