Subject: Re: Autoconf for toolchain "replacement library"?
To: None <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
From: James Chacon <jchacon@genuity.net>
List: tech-toolchain
Date: 11/13/2001 16:28:03
Well...No one said this is an optimal solution...

You can't go halfway. Having something which requires a regen in the tree 
without also providing the tools to do the regen is just insane.

James

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>On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 03:13:13PM -0500, James Chacon wrote:
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> > i.e. if we go this way (which sounds fine), then import autoconf into 
> > gnu/usr.bin so the tools for updating the source tree are available to 
> > everyone by default.
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>Ugh.
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>Two problems:
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>	(1) Then we also need GNU m4.
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>	(2) Autoconf versionitis.
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>-- 
>        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
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