On Sun, May 29, 2005 at 11:03:14PM -0400, Eric Dorland wrote: > * Roberto C. Sanchez (roberto@familiasanchez.net) wrote: > > On Sun, May 29, 2005 at 06:40:26PM -0400, Eric Dorland wrote: > > > > > > I don't think a dependency on automake and autoconf are almost always > > > bad ideas. It makes the build more unpredictable, which is generally a > > > bad thing. You should just run automake and/or autoconf on the > > > unpacked source and ship it in the .diff.gz. An extra 2K won't hurt. > > > > > I tried that once to see the difference. It went from ~4K to ~61K. Is > > that OK? In effect, the only thing changed in configure.in is the GTK > > macro to look for GTK 2 instead of 1.2. I have not had any weirdness > > buidling on my sarge box or in clean Sarge and Sid chroots. > > That seems somewhat unusual. Which package was this? But really, why > quibble over 57K? Is that really a problem we should be worrying > about? > > I've seen it a few times over the years, and they're usually pretty > wacky. > It is toshutils. Personally, I am comfortable with depending on autoconf and automake at build time. If it breaks in future builds, I'll come up with something else. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr
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