On Monday 12 September 2005 14:26, Frank Schafer wrote: > Hi, > > we meet often the (faulty) notion that autoconf/automake (even a couple > of versions on gentoo) is a dependency for packages. > > This is true only for development of these packages itself. > Autoconf/automake provides tools to GENERATE configure scripts. Both are > totally unnecessary to build a package or run the programs it provides. > I've built a full featured LFS system not long ago without even > autoconf/automake installed. > > I'd suggest to remove the build of autoconf/automake from ``emerge > system''. I'd leave all of the autoconf/automake versions in portage > tough for the case someone wants to involve in development of some > package.
One reason is that there are many packages that have faulty/incomplete versions of the scripts, or that have patches applied to the configure script. For those packages automake/autoconf must be installed at make time as automake/autoconf must be ran during the building of those packages. Paul -- Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net
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