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On 25/10/16 11:05 AM, Nick Vinson wrote: |
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> On 10/25/2016 07:11 AM, Raymond Jennings wrote: |
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>> Don't you need autoconf and automake to build a lot of packages? |
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> Theoretically no. When autotools is used correctly, the release tarball |
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> has no dependency on either. That said, many people don't generate / |
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> distribute a release tarball. |
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> However, I don't think this is the criterion used to determine what |
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> should be in @system. The wiki defines the system set as the set that |
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> "contains the software packages required for a standard Gentoo Linux |
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> installation to run properly". |
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> That definition definitely excludes automake and autoconf (arguably gcc |
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> should also excluded, under that definition, so the wiki might not be |
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> 100% correct). |
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> -Nicholas Vinson |
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Unless you need to patch the build system, in which case you need to |
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re-run autoconf/automake/etc (usually via 'eautoreconf'). And there's |
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-plenty- of instances of that around as well. |
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