Re: [gentoo-dev] Why autoconf in system?

[Frank Schafer <frank.schafer@t-systems.cz>]

On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 08:41 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Monday 12 September 2005 08:26 am, Frank Schafer wrote:
> > we meet often the (faulty) notion that autoconf/automake (even a couple
> > of versions on gentoo) is a dependency for packages.
> 
> not quite sure what you mean by 'faulty', autoconf/automake is used heavily 
> throughout portage
> 
> > I'd suggest to remove the build of autoconf/automake from ``emerge
> > system''. I'd leave all of the autoconf/automake versions in portage
> > tough for the case someone wants to involve in development of some
> > package.
> 
> it wouldnt matter, coreutils for example would still need it which means it 
> would show up in `emerge system`
> -mike

Hi, as I mentioned, I built LFS without this (and I have coreutils on
it ;)

Not at all - if we need to modify or create configure files during build
as Paul and Martin said ... we need autoconf/automake

Thanks for clarification.

Frank

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