On Saturday 26 July 2008 6:59:54 pm marty wrote: > You shouldn't deviate from the book in that area. > The necessary components were probably installed correctly. > The scripts in a build dir are only used for building that > specific program. Warning: Do not install them anywhere. > > automake, autoconf, and m4 are essential parts of the gnu > build system. > configure.ac, configure.in, and other scripts are used by > these tools at build time to make a configure script, a > subsequent makefile, and ultimately the program binaries. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_build_system > > Marty B.
The reason I asked is because the scripts are listed as part of the installed programs. (Look at; 6.32.2. Contents of Automake). Thanks for the wiki link Daniel -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/hlfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
