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+def autotools_dep_prepend(d):
+    if d.getVar('INHIBIT_AUTOTOOLS_DEPS', True):
+        return ''
+
+    pn = d.getVar('PN', True)
+    deps = ''
+
+    if pn in ['autoconf-native', 'automake-native', 'help2man-native']:
+        return deps
+    deps += 'autoconf-native automake-native '
+
+    if not pn in ['libtool', 'libtool-native'] and not pn.endswith("libtool-cross"):
+        deps += 'libtool-native '
+        if not bb.data.inherits_class('native', d) \
+                        and not bb.data.inherits_class('nativesdk', d) \
+                        and not bb.data.inherits_class('cross', d) \
+                        and not d.getVar('INHIBIT_DEFAULT_DEPS', True):
+            deps += 'libtool-cross '
+
+    return deps + 'gnu-config-native '
+
+EXTRA_OEMAKE = ""
+
+DEPENDS_prepend = "${@autotools_dep_prepend(d)} "
+
+inherit siteinfo
+
+# Space separated list of shell scripts with variables defined to supply test
+# results for autoconf tests we cannot run at build time.
+export CONFIG_SITE = "${@siteinfo_get_files(d, False)}"
+
+acpaths = "default"
+EXTRA_AUTORECONF = "--exclude=autopoint"
+
+export lt_cv_sys_lib_dlsearch_path_spec = "${libdir} ${base_libdir}"
+
+# When building tools for use at build-time it's recommended for the build
+# system to use these variables when cross-compiling.
+# (http://sources.redhat.com/autobook/autobook/autobook_270.html)
+export CPP_FOR_BUILD = "${BUILD_CPP}"
+export CPPFLAGS_FOR_BUILD = "${BUILD_CPPFLAGS}"
+
+export CC_FOR_BUILD = "${BUILD_CC}"
+export CFLAGS_FOR_BUILD = "${BUILD_CFLAGS}"
+
+export CXX_FOR_BUILD = "${BUILD_CXX}"
+export CXXFLAGS_FOR_BUILD="${BUILD_CXXFLAGS}"
+
+export LD_FOR_BUILD = "${BUILD_LD}"
+export LDFLAGS_FOR_BUILD = "${BUILD_LDFLAGS}"
+
+def append_libtool_sysroot(d):
+    # Only supply libtool sysroot option for non-native packages
+    if not bb.data.inherits_class('native', d):
+        return '--with-libtool-sysroot=${STAGING_DIR_HOST}'
+    return ""
+
+CONFIGUREOPTS = " --build=${BUILD_SYS} \
+		  --host=${HOST_SYS} \
+		  --target=${TARGET_SYS} \
+		  --prefix=${prefix} \
+		  --exec_prefix=${exec_prefix} \
+		  --bindir=${bindir} \
+		  --sbindir=${sbindir} \
+		  --libexecdir=${libexecdir} \
+		  --datadir=${datadir} \
+		  --sysconfdir=${sysconfdir} \
+		  --sharedstatedir=${sharedstatedir} \
+		  --localstatedir=${localstatedir} \
+		  --libdir=${libdir} \
+		  --includedir=${includedir} \
+		  --oldincludedir=${oldincludedir} \
+		  --infodir=${infodir} \
+		  --mandir=${mandir} \
+		  --disable-silent-rules \
+		  ${CONFIGUREOPT_DEPTRACK} \
+		  ${@append_libtool_sysroot(d)}"
+CONFIGUREOPT_DEPTRACK ?= "--disable-dependency-tracking"
+
+
+oe_runconf () {
+	cfgscript="${S}/configure"
+	if [ -x "$cfgscript" ] ; then
+		bbnote "Running $cfgscript ${CONFIGUREOPTS} ${EXTRA_OECONF} $@"
+		set +e
+		${CACHED_CONFIGUREVARS} $cfgscript ${CONFIGUREOPTS} ${EXTRA_OECONF} "$@"
+		if [ "$?" != "0" ]; then
+			echo "Configure failed. The contents of all config.log files follows to aid debugging"
+			find ${S} -ignore_readdir_race -name config.log -print -exec cat {} \;
+			die "oe_runconf failed"
+		fi
+		set -e
+	else
+		bbfatal "no configure script found at $cfgscript"
+	fi
+}
+
+AUTOTOOLS_AUXDIR ?= "${S}"
+
+CONFIGURESTAMPFILE = "${WORKDIR}/configure.sstate"
+
+autotools_preconfigure() {
+	if [ -n "${CONFIGURESTAMPFILE}" -a -e "${CONFIGURESTAMPFILE}" ]; then
+		if [ "`cat ${CONFIGURESTAMPFILE}`" != "${BB_TASKHASH}" ]; then
+			if [ "${S}" != "${B}" ]; then
+				echo "Previously configured separate build directory detected, cleaning ${B}"
+				rm -rf ${B}
+				mkdir ${B}
+			else
+				# At least remove the .la files since automake won't automatically
+				# regenerate them even if CFLAGS/LDFLAGS are different
+				cd ${S}
+				if [ "${CLEANBROKEN}" != "1" -a \( -e Makefile -o -e makefile -o -e GNUmakefile \) ]; then
+					echo "Running \"${MAKE} clean\" in ${S}"
+					${MAKE} clean
+				fi
+				find ${S} -ignore_readdir_race -name \*.la -delete
+			fi
+		fi
+	fi
+}
+
+autotools_postconfigure(){
+	if [ -n "${CONFIGURESTAMPFILE}" ]; then
+		echo ${BB_TASKHASH} > ${CONFIGURESTAMPFILE}
+	fi
+}
+
+EXTRACONFFUNCS ??= ""
+
+do_configure[prefuncs] += "autotools_preconfigure autotools_copy_aclocals ${EXTRACONFFUNCS}"
+do_configure[postfuncs] += "autotools_postconfigure"
+
+ACLOCALDIR = "${B}/aclocal-copy"
+
+python autotools_copy_aclocals () {
+    s = d.getVar("S", True)
+    if not os.path.exists(s + "/configure.in") and not os.path.exists(s + "/configure.ac"):
+        if not d.getVar("AUTOTOOLS_COPYACLOCAL", False):
+            return
+
+    taskdepdata = d.getVar("BB_TASKDEPDATA", False)
+    #bb.warn(str(taskdepdata))
+    pn = d.getVar("PN", True)
+    aclocaldir = d.getVar("ACLOCALDIR", True)
+    oe.path.remove(aclocaldir)
+    bb.utils.mkdirhier(aclocaldir)
+    start = None
+    configuredeps = []
+
+    for dep in taskdepdata:
+        data = taskdepdata[dep]
+        if data[1] == "do_configure" and data[0] == pn:
+            start = dep
+            break
+    if start is None:
+        bb.fatal("Couldn't find ourself in BB_TASKDEPDATA?")
+
+    # We need to find configure tasks which are either from <target> -> <target>
+    # or <native> -> <native> but not <target> -> <native> unless they're direct
+    # dependencies. This mirrors what would get restored from sstate.
+    done = [dep]
+    next = [dep]
+    while next:
+        new = []
+        for dep in next:
+            data = taskdepdata[dep]
+            for datadep in data[3]:
+                if datadep in done:
+                    continue
+                done.append(datadep)
+                if (not data[0].endswith("-native")) and taskdepdata[datadep][0].endswith("-native") and dep != start:
+                    continue
+                new.append(datadep)
+                if taskdepdata[datadep][1] == "do_configure":
+                    configuredeps.append(taskdepdata[datadep][0])
+        next = new
+
+    #configuredeps2 = []
+    #for dep in taskdepdata:
+    #    data = taskdepdata[dep]
+    #    if data[1] == "do_configure" and data[0] != pn:
+    #        configuredeps2.append(data[0])
+    #configuredeps.sort()
+    #configuredeps2.sort()
+    #bb.warn(str(configuredeps))
+    #bb.warn(str(configuredeps2))
+
+    cp = []
+    siteconf = []    
+    for c in configuredeps:
+        if c.endswith("-native"):
+            manifest = d.expand("${SSTATE_MANIFESTS}/manifest-${BUILD_ARCH}-%s.populate_sysroot" % c)
+        elif c.startswith("nativesdk-"):
+            manifest = d.expand("${SSTATE_MANIFESTS}/manifest-${SDK_ARCH}_${SDK_OS}-%s.populate_sysroot" % c)
+        elif "-cross-" in c or "-crosssdk" in c:
+            continue
+        else:
+            manifest = d.expand("${SSTATE_MANIFESTS}/manifest-${MACHINE}-%s.populate_sysroot" % c)
+        try:
+            f = open(manifest, "r")
+            for l in f:
+                if "/aclocal/" in l and l.strip().endswith(".m4"):
+                    cp.append(l.strip())
+                elif "config_site.d/" in l:
+                    cp.append(l.strip())
+        except:
+            bb.warn("%s not found" % manifest)
+
+    for c in cp:
+        t = os.path.join(aclocaldir, os.path.basename(c))
+        if not os.path.exists(t):
+            os.symlink(c, t)
+            
+    d.setVar("CONFIG_SITE", siteinfo_get_files(d, False))
+}
+autotools_copy_aclocals[vardepsexclude] += "MACHINE SDK_ARCH BUILD_ARCH SDK_OS BB_TASKDEPDATA"
+
+autotools_do_configure() {
+	# WARNING: gross hack follows:
+	# An autotools built package generally needs these scripts, however only
+	# automake or libtoolize actually install the current versions of them.
+	# This is a problem in builds that do not use libtool or automake, in the case
+	# where we -need- the latest version of these scripts.  e.g. running a build
+	# for a package whose autotools are old, on an x86_64 machine, which the old
+	# config.sub does not support.  Work around this by installing them manually
+	# regardless.
+	( for ac in `find ${S} -ignore_readdir_race -name configure.in -o -name configure.ac`; do
+		rm -f `dirname $ac`/configure
+		done )
+	if [ -e ${S}/configure.in -o -e ${S}/configure.ac ]; then
+		olddir=`pwd`
+		cd ${S}
+		ACLOCAL="aclocal --system-acdir=${ACLOCALDIR}/"
+		if [ x"${acpaths}" = xdefault ]; then
+			acpaths=
+			for i in `find ${S} -ignore_readdir_race -maxdepth 2 -name \*.m4|grep -v 'aclocal.m4'| \
+				grep -v 'acinclude.m4' | grep -v 'aclocal-copy' | sed -e 's,\(.*/\).*$,\1,'|sort -u`; do
+				acpaths="$acpaths -I $i"
+			done
+		else
+			acpaths="${acpaths}"
+		fi
+		AUTOV=`automake --version | sed -e '1{s/.* //;s/\.[0-9]\+$//};q'`
+		automake --version
+		echo "AUTOV is $AUTOV"
+		if [ -d ${STAGING_DATADIR_NATIVE}/aclocal-$AUTOV ]; then
+			ACLOCAL="$ACLOCAL --automake-acdir=${STAGING_DATADIR_NATIVE}/aclocal-$AUTOV"
+		fi
+		# autoreconf is too shy to overwrite aclocal.m4 if it doesn't look
+		# like it was auto-generated.  Work around this by blowing it away
+		# by hand, unless the package specifically asked not to run aclocal.
+		if ! echo ${EXTRA_AUTORECONF} | grep -q "aclocal"; then
+			rm -f aclocal.m4
+		fi
+		if [ -e configure.in ]; then
+			CONFIGURE_AC=configure.in
+		else
+			CONFIGURE_AC=configure.ac
+		fi
+		if grep "^[[:space:]]*AM_GLIB_GNU_GETTEXT" $CONFIGURE_AC >/dev/null; then
+			if grep "sed.*POTFILES" $CONFIGURE_AC >/dev/null; then
+				: do nothing -- we still have an old unmodified configure.ac
+	    		else
+				bbnote Executing glib-gettextize --force --copy
+				echo "no" | glib-gettextize --force --copy
+			fi
+		else if grep "^[[:space:]]*AM_GNU_GETTEXT" $CONFIGURE_AC >/dev/null; then
+			# We'd call gettextize here if it wasn't so broken...
+				cp ${STAGING_DATADIR_NATIVE}/gettext/config.rpath ${AUTOTOOLS_AUXDIR}/
+				if [ -d ${S}/po/ ]; then
+					cp -f ${STAGING_DATADIR_NATIVE}/gettext/po/Makefile.in.in ${S}/po/
+					if [ ! -e ${S}/po/remove-potcdate.sin ]; then
+						cp ${STAGING_DATADIR_NATIVE}/gettext/po/remove-potcdate.sin ${S}/po/
+					fi
+				fi
+				for i in gettext.m4 iconv.m4 lib-ld.m4 lib-link.m4 lib-prefix.m4 nls.m4 po.m4 progtest.m4; do
+					for j in `find ${S} -ignore_readdir_race -name $i | grep -v aclocal-copy`; do
+						rm $j
+					done
+				done
+			fi
+		fi
+		mkdir -p m4
+		if grep "^[[:space:]]*[AI][CT]_PROG_INTLTOOL" $CONFIGURE_AC >/dev/null; then
+			bbnote Executing intltoolize --copy --force --automake
+			intltoolize --copy --force --automake
+		fi
+		bbnote Executing ACLOCAL=\"$ACLOCAL\" autoreconf --verbose --install --force ${EXTRA_AUTORECONF} $acpaths
+		ACLOCAL="$ACLOCAL" autoreconf -Wcross --verbose --install --force ${EXTRA_AUTORECONF} $acpaths || die "autoreconf execution failed."
+		cd $olddir
+	fi
+	if [ -e ${S}/configure ]; then
+		oe_runconf
+	else
+		bbnote "nothing to configure"
+	fi
+}
+
+autotools_do_install() {
+	oe_runmake 'DESTDIR=${D}' install
+	# Info dir listing isn't interesting at this point so remove it if it exists.
+	if [ -e "${D}${infodir}/dir" ]; then
+		rm -f ${D}${infodir}/dir
+	fi
+}
+
+inherit siteconfig
+
+EXPORT_FUNCTIONS do_configure do_install
+
+B = "${WORKDIR}/build"