From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Enge Subject: Re: [PATCH] distro: automake: Update to 1.12.6 Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2013 16:24:06 +0100 Message-ID: <201301031624.06676.andreas@enge.fr> References: <201212220956.51651.andreas@enge.fr> <201301031418.30837.andreas@enge.fr> <87hamy5nsh.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="Boundary-01=_WKa5QYjbGOz7MP7" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:57150) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TqmeU-00034h-Kg for bug-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Jan 2013 10:24:17 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TqmeR-0006fU-P2 for bug-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Jan 2013 10:24:14 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87hamy5nsh.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Ludovic =?utf-8?q?Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: bug-guix@gnu.org --Boundary-01=_WKa5QYjbGOz7MP7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Am Donnerstag, 3. Januar 2013 schrieb Ludovic Court=C3=A8s: > No: Autoconf/Automake/Libtool have the advantage of /not/ being > prerequisites for building packages that use them. You mean that the output of the autotools is independent of their version=20 (assuming that a recent enough version is used so that all macros are=20 understood)? Otherwise I do not see this independence. Andreas --Boundary-01=_WKa5QYjbGOz7MP7 Content-Type: text/html; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Am Donnerst= ag, 3. Januar 2013 schrieb Ludovic Court=C3=A8s:

> No: Au= toconf/Automake/Libtool have the advantage of /not/ being

> prereq= uisites for building packages that use them.

&nb= sp;

You mean th= at the output of the autotools is independent of their version (assuming th= at a recent enough version is used so that all macros are understood)? Othe= rwise I do not see this independence.

&nb= sp;

Andreas

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