Hey Adolf,
Great question, but the answer is no.
This is something that was required for the RISC-V port that I did and since the changes do not do anything on the other architectures, I merged the branch and was planning to write an announcement to the list.
Since I am quite buried in work at the moment, I didn’t not find to write the announcement, yet.
The macro simply updates the bundled automake scripts that come with the source tarballs of all those packages that use automake. They simply check whether the architecture the script is running on is supported and older versions report that they do not recognise this architecture at all. Therefore I simply replace them with a recent version from our version of automake and the build runs through.
Some more packages might need it, but we will see it when it happens. There probably won’t be too regular builds of RISC-V anyways, so there is nothing to worry about.
But good to ask this :)
-Michael
On 8 Mar 2021, at 13:11, Adolf Belka (ipfire) adolf.belka@ipfire.org wrote:
Hi all,
I saw a lot of lfs files having $(UPDATE_AUTOMAKE) added to them. This is presumably related to the recently upgraded automake package. Should I add $(UPDATE_AUTOMAKE) to any package I am updating if it has not already been added or is it only needed on the ones that have already been modified?
Regards,
Adolf.