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On Tuesday 28 January 2003 20:16, Evan Powers wrote: |
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> Besides laziness, I mean. |
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> And I'd imagine there isn't a single package which DEPENDs on automake in |
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> sense that "automake is required to build this package from the distribution |
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> tarball". Every package source tarball I'm aware of includes pre-generated |
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> Makefile.in's for exactly the same reason people include pre-generated Yacc |
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> parsers. If you can unpack && ./configure && make, then you don't have to |
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run |
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> automake to build the package. |
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> CVS-snapshot ebuilds probably have to run automake, but the Makefile.am's in |
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> each software package will probably refer to the automake binary as |
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> automake-x.y, since that's what you're supposed to do since 1.5. I'm not so |
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> sure it isn't a very good idea to make that dependence explicit, even if it |
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> is a lot of work. And there can't be all that many CVS ebuilds. |
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Well it's not only cvs ebuilds. Fex. sometimes I find myself wanting to change |
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something in a Makefile.am or similar file, which requires a rerun of |
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autotools. It's a more common situation (when packaging stuff in ebuilds) |
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than you might think and having the autools stuff well automated (e.g. all |
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versions are always present and the right one is automagically called) is a |
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very good thing to have. |
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Dan Armak |
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Gentoo Linux developer (KDE) |
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Matan, Israel |
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