From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: [PATCH] distro: automake: Update to 1.12.6 Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2013 17:04:06 +0100 Message-ID: <87hamy2qyx.fsf@gnu.org> References: <201212220956.51651.andreas@enge.fr> <201301031418.30837.andreas@enge.fr> <87hamy5nsh.fsf@gnu.org> <201301031624.06676.andreas@enge.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:37897) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TqnH8-00078E-ML for bug-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Jan 2013 11:04:11 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TqnH7-0000bo-3s for bug-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Jan 2013 11:04:10 -0500 Received: from mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr ([192.134.164.105]:13686) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TqnH6-0000bH-UO for bug-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Jan 2013 11:04:09 -0500 In-Reply-To: <201301031624.06676.andreas@enge.fr> (Andreas Enge's message of "Thu, 3 Jan 2013 16:24:06 +0100") 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: Andreas Enge Cc: bug-guix@gnu.org Andreas Enge skribis: > 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)? Right, it=E2=80=99s not independent of the autotools that were used. What I meant is that an autotools-generated tarball contains a build system whose sole requirement is a Bourne shell and a POSIX make. Ludo=E2=80=99.