autoconf/autoheader required in some cases

Todd Vierling tv@pobox.com
Wed Aug 26 05:09:00 GMT 1998


If, say, you don't use the `touch' script, and you don't have autoconf or
autoheader installed at all, the Makefiles will attempt to run autoconf and
autoheader anyway.

I've seen a plethora of GNU pkgs that have _checked_for_ the presence of
autoconf and autoheader before using them.  Wouldn't it be possible, and
maybe even trivial, to add such checks to egcs's configure.in scripts?

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-- Todd Vierling (Personal tv@pobox.com; Bus. todd_vierling@xn.xerox.com)




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