Nico R. wrote:
I haven't actually built a system from the alphabetical branch, but in
situations like this one, I usually prefer using some configure
switches. But that may be due to the fact that I like to have more
control and dislike badly written configure scripts which have broken
tests, provide wrong values, or, like in this case, don't have useful
fallbacks.
What say the others?
The UTF-8 book uses a similar approach in order to circumvent man-db
dependencies, see
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~alexander/lfs-book/chapter06/man-db.html
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