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 1EEneW-0003WM-S7 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 12:43:17 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j8CCapqU004221; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 12:36:51 GMT Received: from psmtp01.wxs.nl (psmtp01.wxs.nl [195.121.6.56]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j8CCYM0U001772 for ; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 12:34:23 GMT Received: from pavlvs2.devrieze.net ([84.87.243.3]) by psmtp01.wxs.nl (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j8CCcjGk011987 for ; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 14:38:45 +0200 Received: from hex.local.devrieze.net (hex.local.devrieze.net [192.168.1.7]) by pavlvs2.devrieze.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5C421004F for ; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 14:38:45 +0200 (CEST) From: Paul de Vrieze To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Why autoconf in system? Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 14:38:37 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <1126527993.5947.159.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1126527993.5947.159.camel@localhost.localdomain> X-Face: #Lb+'V@sGJ;ptgo5}V"W+5OCoo{LZv;bh,s,`WKLi/J)ed1_$0;6X<=?utf-8?q?700LVV/=3BLqPhiDP=5E=0A=09=27f=5Dfnv?=@%6M8\'HR1t=aFx;ePfp{ZQoBe+e)JOQ8T5*(_;mHY+cltLGq<;@$Y,=?utf-8?q?O=5C=24=0A=09Tm=23G6M?=,g![Q62J{na*S9d;R[^8pc%u\aiLqU@`kJtYl"^6pxdW 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: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1741521.uDu3qY0OYI"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200509121438.46208.pauldv@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: ae9fb0fd-24d4-4208-959b-029fff046178 X-Archives-Hash: d6020ea17124804de72eaa4d844c82d4 --nextPart1741521.uDu3qY0OYI Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-6" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Monday 12 September 2005 14:26, Frank Schafer wrote: > Hi, > > we meet often the (faulty) notion that autoconf/automake (even a couple > of versions on gentoo) is a dependency for packages. > > This is true only for development of these packages itself. > Autoconf/automake provides tools to GENERATE configure scripts. Both are > totally unnecessary to build a package or run the programs it provides. > I've built a full featured LFS system not long ago without even > autoconf/automake installed. > > 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. One reason is that there are many packages that have faulty/incomplete=20 versions of the scripts, or that have patches applied to the configure=20 script. For those packages automake/autoconf must be installed at make time= =20 as automake/autoconf must be ran during the building of those packages. Paul =2D-=20 Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: pauldv@gentoo.org Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net --nextPart1741521.uDu3qY0OYI Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2-ecc0.1.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBDJXbWbKx5DBjWFdsRAm7/AKDYrED3oxD1akATJTmd2/7dFUx7dACfVddj +lKqrpGVkKS9wDIsfFlWyn4= =9zzE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1741521.uDu3qY0OYI-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list