* Re: [gentoo-dev] Why autoconf in system?
@ 2005-09-12 12:40 99% ` Martin Schlemmer
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From: Martin Schlemmer @ 2005-09-12 12:40 UTC (permalink / raw
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On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 14:26 +0200, 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.
>
While this is true, you missed the fact that many packages from time to
time apply patches that touches configure.{ac,in}, or Makefile.am, or
just do not come tarballed with configure, etc generated, so it is
indeed needed.
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Martin Schlemmer
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