From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EEpUh-0000jl-L7 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 14:41:16 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j8CEZbwW029935; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 14:35:37 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j8CEXYn7005911 for ; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 14:33:34 GMT Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=home.wh0rd.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EEpRV-0008DD-K9 for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 14:37:57 +0000 Received: (qmail 16593 invoked from network); 12 Sep 2005 10:35:20 -0400 Received: from unknown (HELO vapier) (192.168.0.2) by 192.168.0.1 with SMTP; 12 Sep 2005 10:35:20 -0400 From: Mike Frysinger Organization: wh0rd.org To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Why autoconf in system? Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 10:38:15 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <1126527993.5947.159.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1126529308.5947.178.camel@localhost.localdomain> <43257B71.7000700@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <43257B71.7000700@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200509121038.15443.vapier@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: 5a44c956-c0e7-4d0e-afde-e04ded87293f X-Archives-Hash: 8a92ff51724f0a4210bd7b8b219058bd On Monday 12 September 2005 08:58 am, Stephen P. Becker wrote: > > 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 > > And furthermore, many programs (or upstream authors if you prefer) are > braindead and don't know what some non-x86 arches are without updating > the config.sub/config.guess, and re-running autoconf/automake. those two files dont require re-running autoconf/automake it isnt uncommon though to have upstream run autotools in the wrong order and package the result as their release ... then when you run `./configure && make`, the build system has mismatched timestamps and thus tries to invoke autotools to fix itself :/ -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list