From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3250 invoked by uid 1002); 19 Nov 2003 20:24:50 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 16009 invoked from network); 19 Nov 2003 20:24:49 -0000 To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org References: <20031119170631.GB17770@james.is.never.wrong.nu> <20031119185807.GD17770@james.is.never.wrong.nu> From: Matthew Kennedy Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 14:20:44 -0600 In-Reply-To: <20031119185807.GD17770@james.is.never.wrong.nu> (James Harlow's message of "Wed, 19 Nov 2003 18:58:07 +0000") Message-ID: <87u1503yar.fsf@killr.ath.cx> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: My first ebuild: GNU Hello X-Archives-Salt: 458fab44-a382-4050-9d08-be61fdf690f2 X-Archives-Hash: d48595c2fa545cdd138357ae67ad733a James Harlow writes: > On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 06:39:18PM +0000, Marco Maggesi wrote: >> > I'd suggest adding autoconf and automake to the DEPENDS. >> >> I added autoconf, automake as you suggested. But I do not understand >> exactly why this is necessary. They should not be needed to build >> from >> the tarball. Can you explain more? > > Ah, I thought it needed auto{conf,make}, it turns out it's just a > good template for them. [...] That's true. Generally, if the source comes with a configure script named "configure", then you don't need autotools[1] dependencies. If you have to re-create the configure or Makefile.in files from the configure.in or Makefile.am templates as part of your ebuild, then you would need to depend on the autotools. Matt Footnotes: [1] automake, autoconf, libtool etc. -- Matthew Kennedy Gentoo Linux Developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list