On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 07:37 -0500, Nate Straz wrote:
> On Feb 16 19:04, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 6:46 AM, Subrata Modak
> > > in LTP to automatically install the pre-requisite patches when user
> > > wants to use autotools. 'make prep' will fetch the sources of
> > > 1) m4,
> > > 2) autoconf,
> > > 3) automake,
> > >
> > > build & install them in the user system. ltp/INSTALL and ltp/Makefile
> > > has been updated with such information.
> > 
> > Uh... why not just add a check for these items and print out an error
> > if things don't already exist? I mean, distribution methods will vary
> > per Linux distro, and as such building them and installing them on the
> > system might not be such a great idea.

Well then, i would keep this script with me and keep updating the
package(s) version(s) in the code. I thought this would help me a lot as
well as to others, who might be wanting to do:

> make maintainer-clean
> make

with root privilege.

> I agree, this isn't a good idea.  Also, isn't the point of autotools
> that the maintainer generates the scripts before releasing so the users
> don't have to generate them.  Then they're supposed to be able to run on
> any system without autotools installed.

True. This was supposed to be as optional as: make autotools, is for
users.

Regards--
Subrata

> 
> Nate
> 
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