On Thu, 24 Nov 2011, Peter Rosin wrote:
There is one possibly hard bootstrapping problem. What if you want to deploy some package that does not need a C compiler on some system that lacks both a C compiler and GNU Make? You would have problems there for sure. Some number-crunching fortran-centric piece comes to mind, or some locked down financial system where a cobol compiler or something is present, but no C compiler.
Is it possible to run baseline Autoconf configure without a working C compiler? Automake depends on Autoconf.
Regardless, I do agree that building GNU Make from source introduces a requirement for a working C compiler.
Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
