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On Monday 12 September 2005 14:26, Frank Schafer wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> we meet often the (faulty) notion that autoconf/automake (even a couple |
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> of versions on gentoo) is a dependency for packages. |
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> This is true only for development of these packages itself. |
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> Autoconf/automake provides tools to GENERATE configure scripts. Both are |
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> totally unnecessary to build a package or run the programs it provides. |
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> I've built a full featured LFS system not long ago without even |
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> autoconf/automake installed. |
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> I'd suggest to remove the build of autoconf/automake from ``emerge |
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> system''. I'd leave all of the autoconf/automake versions in portage |
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> tough for the case someone wants to involve in development of some |
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> package. |
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One reason is that there are many packages that have faulty/incomplete |
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versions of the scripts, or that have patches applied to the configure |
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script. For those packages automake/autoconf must be installed at make time |
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as automake/autoconf must be ran during the building of those packages. |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |