On 3/3/06, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In fact, keeping it alphabetical, for no other reason that to keep > it alphabetical, when this breaks (or affords less quality of) test > suites, is simply wrong. Of course, just IMHO. But that is what you > were asking for.
Thanks for the reply, but this wasn't exactly what I was looking for. The situation is that autoconf can use automake and libtool in it's testsuite. The answer I'm looking for is, what's the best solution to solve this tricky situation. Here are the issues that get involved. 1. automake depends on autoconf and autoconf test suites depends on automake. This is circular. The only way to solve it is to add one or the other to /tools or to live with less test coverage in autoconf. I would personally add autoconf to /tools, but that's pretty unlikely given autoconf's tenuous state in the book already. 2. If libtool is moved up to satisfy the autoconf tests, then grep will have to change. libtool depends on grep because it will hardcode the location of grep into itself. This can be solved in one of two ways: move grep ahead of libtool which will be near the beginning of the order, or add /bin/grep -> /tools/bin/grep to the Essential Symlinks. I believe the first would not regress the current build at all, but the second would be very simple as well. -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
