Hi, as I mentioned, I built LFS without this (and I have coreutils on it ;)Not at all - if we need to modify or create configure files during build as Paul and Martin said ... we need autoconf/automake
And furthermore, many programs (or upstream authors if you prefer) are braindead and don't know what some non-x86 arches are without updating the config.sub/config.guess, and re-running autoconf/automake.
-Steve -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
