On Monday 12 September 2005 08:58 am, Stephen P. Becker wrote: > > 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 > > And furthermore, many programs (or upstream authors if you prefer) are > braindead and don't know what some non-x86 arches are without updating > the config.sub/config.guess, and re-running autoconf/automake.
those two files dont require re-running autoconf/automake it isnt uncommon though to have upstream run autotools in the wrong order and package the result as their release ... then when you run `./configure && make`, the build system has mismatched timestamps and thus tries to invoke autotools to fix itself :/ -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
