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On Monday 12 September 2005 08:58 am, Stephen P. Becker wrote: |
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> > Hi, as I mentioned, I built LFS without this (and I have coreutils on |
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> > it ;) |
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> > |
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> > Not at all - if we need to modify or create configure files during build |
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> > as Paul and Martin said ... we need autoconf/automake |
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> And furthermore, many programs (or upstream authors if you prefer) are |
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> braindead and don't know what some non-x86 arches are without updating |
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> the config.sub/config.guess, and re-running autoconf/automake. |
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those two files dont require re-running autoconf/automake |
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it isnt uncommon though to have upstream run autotools in the wrong order and |
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package the result as their release ... then when you run `./configure && |
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make`, the build system has mismatched timestamps and thus tries to invoke |
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autotools to fix itself :/ |
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-mike |
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