Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> wrote: > > The lesson to learn here is that packages should not require libtool, > autoconf, or whatever at build time. Those tools are designed to be run at > source preperation time, so it is the responsibility of the package > maintainer to run them before packaging the source. So... should my packages not require gcc or ld to build either? Sorry, I don't agree with your argument. A generated file is a generated file, and if the upstream source doesn't have it (or if you've patched the files which are input source for the generated file), then you need to generate it. I don't see configure scripts or Makefiles as any different to object files or compiled and linked binaries. They're generated from source, which means they will probably get generated during the build. -- Sam Couter | Internet Engineer | http://www.topic.com.au/ sam@topic.com.au | tSA Consulting | OpenPGP key ID: DE89C75C, available on key servers OpenPGP fingerprint: A46B 9BB5 3148 7BEA 1F05 5BD5 8530 03AE DE89 C75C
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