Re: Multi-source package. Native?

[Terry Hancock <hancock@anansispaceworks.com>]

Actually, Zed privately answered this.  Apparently I was 
wrong about what "native" meant, so I'll just have to 
manually create iraf-2.12.orig.tar.gz as the conformant
distribution file.

And regarding the IRAF "bootstrap", yes I understand this.

Essentially what's going on is that IRAF is (or is trying 
to be) self-hosting, in that the build process actually 
uses IRAF to build.  This is the same problem with Lisp 
compilers in Lisp, C compilers in C, and the recent PyPy 
project that is writing a Python compiler/interpreter in 
Python.

Fun stuff.  ;-D

Cheers,
Terry

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