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RE: as.info built in the source directory?
- From: "Dave Korn" <dk at artimi dot com>
- To: "'Andrew Cagney'" <cagney at gnu dot org>
- Cc: "'Ben Elliston'" <bje at au1 dot ibm dot com>,"'DJ Delorie'" <dj at redhat dot com>,<binutils at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 18:25:50 +0100
- Subject: RE: as.info built in the source directory?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Cagney
> Sent: 14 July 2004 18:13
> To: Dave Korn
> Cc: 'Ben Elliston'; 'DJ Delorie'; binutils
> Subject: Re: as.info built in the source directory?
>
> (I thought ben would step in :-)
He did, but off list. :)
> It's the autoconf/automake files that are the exception. They are
> generated and checked in to avoid local tool dependency problems (sh
> et.al. can be really querky :-).
More or less what he said. I was wondering why end-users are expected to
have makeinfo installed and available but aren't expected to have auto*
tools. But if it's really just the auto{conf,make} files that need special
treatment because of these version problems, that makes sense to me.
cheers,
DaveK
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