Jeremy Henty wrote: > I'd always taken it for granted that m4, autoconf, automake etc. had > to be in LFS, but recently I thought "Hang on! The auto-tools are > *development* tools, not build tools. Building auto-tooled software > only requires a shell, make, sed etc. You don't need autoconf and > friends unless you want to develop software.". > > So, since creating an LFS system only requires building existing > software, why does it include the auto-tools? Could we not move them > to BLFS? What am I missing here? > > Regards, > > Jeremy Henty
Define development. We patch the source, so IMO we are doing 'development' to some extent. If you make changes in the build (by modifying auto-tools scripts), then the auto-tools are required to regenerate the configure script and makefiles. Although I don't believe that there are any such changes in current LFS, there have been many in the past. -- DJ Lucas -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
