On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 8:52 AM, Sergey Poznyakoff <[email protected]> wrote:

> Notice also that there is a difference between core- and inetutils:
> our configure.ac gives installer a possibility to build only a subset
> of all utilities. The current implementation of this is suboptimal,
> as it was written back ago when Automake did not support DIST_SUBDIRS.
> The latter would greatly simplify it, but it relies on each utility
> residing in its dedicated subdirectory.
>

I'm curious if anyone actually uses that functionality.  I suspect that
having switches for just clients / daemons / system tools would be enough to
cover every reasonable use case.

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