I have set up a recipe of mine to use autotools to make my project. I recently decided to run bitbake with the verbose output turned on. I noticed nowhere in my build or compilation does autogen.sh get called. It goes straight to my configure.ac.
Why is this? I thought autogen.sh was required. Is there a way to make it use autogen.sh?
OE-Core's autotools.bbclass is setup to run autoreconf, libtoolize and the other tools needed itself without using the autogen.sh since they can vary a lot in quality. Your software will have configure regenerated, it just won't use the helper script.