On 11/24/11 11:40 AM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
On Thu, 24 Nov 2011, Peter Rosin wrote:
There is one possibly hard bootstrapping problem. What if you want to
deploy some package that does not need a C compiler on some system that
lacks both a C compiler and GNU Make? You would have problems there for
sure. Some number-crunching fortran-centric piece comes to mind, or some
locked down financial system where a cobol compiler or something is
present, but no C compiler.
Is it possible to run baseline Autoconf configure without a working C
compiler? Automake depends on Autoconf.
Hi Bob,
You already know this, of course, but this is not about running
Automake; this is about building projects that have Automake generated
Makefile.in. You don't need Autoconf to accomplish this but only
whatever is required for './configure && make' to work.
Thanks,
Peter
