On 2011-11-24 10:40 -0600, 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.
Autoconf-generated configure scripts do not require a C compiler unless you use a macro that requires a C compiler (e.g. the AC_PROG_CC family or one of the AC_whatever_IFELSE macros with AC_LANG set to "C"). Cheers, -- Nick Bowler, Elliptic Technologies (http://www.elliptictech.com/)
