James Harlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 06:39:18PM +0000, Marco Maggesi wrote:
>> > I'd suggest adding autoconf and automake to the DEPENDS.
>>
>> I added autoconf, automake as you suggested. But I do not understand
>> exactly why this is necessary. They should not be needed to build
>> from
>> the tarball. Can you explain more?
>
> Ah, I thought it needed auto{conf,make}, it turns out it's just a
> good template for them.
[...]
That's true. Generally, if the source comes with a configure script
named "configure", then you don't need autotools[1] dependencies. If
you have to re-create the configure or Makefile.in files from the
configure.in or Makefile.am templates as part of your ebuild, then
you would need to depend on the autotools.
Matt
Footnotes:
[1] automake, autoconf, libtool etc.
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