On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 08:41 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Monday 12 September 2005 08:26 am, Frank Schafer wrote: > > we meet often the (faulty) notion that autoconf/automake (even a couple > > of versions on gentoo) is a dependency for packages. > > not quite sure what you mean by 'faulty', autoconf/automake is used heavily > throughout portage > > > 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. > > it wouldnt matter, coreutils for example would still need it which means it > would show up in `emerge system` > -mike
Hi, as I mentioned, I built LFS without this (and I have coreutils on it ;) Not at all - if we need to modify or create configure files during build as Paul and Martin said ... we need autoconf/automake Thanks for clarification. Frank -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
