http://bugs.linuxfromscratch.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1598
------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2005-12-25 01:02 ------- (In reply to comment #6) > I know the book lists m4 as a dependency for binutils, but I don't see where > it's using it. I renamed /usr/bin/m4 temporarily, and it built successfully, > and > the testsuite ran without a single failure. The only place I see m4 mentioned > in > the toolchain package docs is for gcc, and that's only listed as being needed > if > you're modifying the source code. A little more...I've noticed that binutils is the only package in Chapter 5 that is listed as "depending on" m4. I also see that there are only 6 packages (besides binutils) that say they need m4 in Chapter 6 - autoconf, automake, bison, flex, kbd, and module-init-tools. So, if binutils turns out to not really need m4, m4 could be dropped from Chapter 5 entirely, as all of the other Chapter 6 packages that use m4 must be installed *after* m4 anyway. Of course it would be nice if someone with much more technical knowledge than I gave their input on this, since as I mentioned before, binutils installation documentation is a little hard to come by... ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug, or are watching the assignee. You are the QA contact for the bug, or are watching the QA contact. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-book FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
