Guillaume Rousse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:


[...]

> I beg to disagree : most packages don't need them for building.

"most" : no.

[gc@bi ~/rpm/SPECS] find -name "*.spec" | xargs grep "configure" | perl -ne 'print 
"$1\n" if /^(.*)spec/' | uniq | wc -l
    252
[gc@bi ~/rpm/SPECS] find -name "*.spec" | wc -l
    349
[gc@bi ~/rpm/SPECS] ruby -e 'p 252/349.0'
0.7220630372


> Missing make, or flex, or autoconf, or any explicitly called command is fail 
> fast, and such easy to correct. But here, missing automake causes a vicious 
> bootstraping error that was not so easy to correct...


-- 
Guillaume Cottenceau - http://mandrakesoft.com/~gc/

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