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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    [gentoo-dev] need for autotools (was: Commented packages in the @system set)
From:       Ian Stakenvicius <axs () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2016-10-25 15:34:29
Message-ID: 16eff12b-0a21-23aa-a829-f7531f593e3c () gentoo ! org
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On 25/10/16 11:05 AM, Nick Vinson wrote:
> On 10/25/2016 07:11 AM, Raymond Jennings wrote:
>> Don't you need autoconf and automake to build a lot of packages?
> 
> Theoretically no.  When autotools is used correctly, the release tarball
> has no dependency on either.  That said, many people don't generate /
> distribute a release tarball.
> 
> However, I don't think this is the criterion used to determine what
> should be in @system.  The wiki defines the system set as the set that
> "contains the software packages required for a standard Gentoo Linux
> installation to run properly".
> 
> That definition definitely excludes automake and autoconf (arguably gcc
> should also excluded, under that definition, so the wiki might not be
> 100% correct).
> 
> -Nicholas Vinson
> 

Unless you need to patch the build system, in which case you need to
re-run autoconf/automake/etc (usually via 'eautoreconf').  And there's
-plenty- of instances of that around as well.




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