On 25/10/16 11:05 AM, Nick Vinson wrote: > On 10/25/2016 07:11 AM, Raymond Jennings wrote: >> Don't you need autoconf and automake to build a lot of packages? > > Theoretically no. When autotools is used correctly, the release tarball > has no dependency on either. That said, many people don't generate / > distribute a release tarball. > > However, I don't think this is the criterion used to determine what > should be in @system. The wiki defines the system set as the set that > "contains the software packages required for a standard Gentoo Linux > installation to run properly". > > That definition definitely excludes automake and autoconf (arguably gcc > should also excluded, under that definition, so the wiki might not be > 100% correct). > > -Nicholas Vinson >
Unless you need to patch the build system, in which case you need to re-run autoconf/automake/etc (usually via 'eautoreconf'). And there's -plenty- of instances of that around as well.
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