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 1EEnzf-0004ms-V6 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 13:05:08 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j8CCwtcE023203; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 12:58:55 GMT Received: from lennier.cc.vt.edu (lennier.cc.vt.edu [198.82.162.213]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j8CCs7dg019845 for ; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 12:54:08 GMT Received: from dagger.cc.vt.edu (IDENT:mirapoint@evil-dagger.cc.vt.edu [10.1.1.11]) by lennier.cc.vt.edu (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j8CCwU2l021548 for ; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 08:58:30 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.2] (blacksburg-bsr1-69-170-32-128.chvlva.adelphia.net [69.170.32.128]) by dagger.cc.vt.edu (MOS 3.6.4-CR) with ESMTP id ECS18542 (AUTH spbecker); Mon, 12 Sep 2005 08:58:26 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <43257B71.7000700@gentoo.org> Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 08:58:25 -0400 From: "Stephen P. Becker" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050807) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en 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 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Why autoconf in system? References: <1126527993.5947.159.camel@localhost.localdomain> <200509120841.12888.vapier@gentoo.org> <1126529308.5947.178.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1126529308.5947.178.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 770cebaa-2498-4fcd-9661-c3b3bf43ac5a X-Archives-Hash: 2a8c60fd3a7ee4c29f4543752b2faa02 > 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. -Steve -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list