Dan Nicholson wrote:
1. automake depends on autoconf and autoconf test suites depends on automake. This is circular. The only way to solve it is to add one or the other to /tools or to live with less test coverage in autoconf. I would personally add autoconf to /tools, but that's pretty unlikely given autoconf's tenuous state in the book already.
Eek. Do you feel that it's worth that?
2. If libtool is moved up to satisfy the autoconf tests, then grep will have to change. libtool depends on grep because it will hardcode the location of grep into itself. This can be solved in one of two ways: move grep ahead of libtool which will be near the beginning of the order, or add /bin/grep -> /tools/bin/grep to the Essential Symlinks. I believe the first would not regress the current build at all, but the second would be very simple as well.
I don't mind if this is done, but it still feels like we're bending over backwards for autofoo. I'd personally be more comfortable just re-installing them at the end. It would take all of what, two minutes?
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