On Fri, 2024-04-19 at 00:11 +0200, kpcyrd wrote: > does somebody know what the bootstrapping status of autotools is? > > Also, is something considered "bootstrapped from source" if the build > is making use of a pre-generated `./configure` script that is 25k > lines long? > > In my opinion something is only "bootstrapped from source" if > autoreconf is used as part of the build instead of executing some > pre-compiled `./configure` script. This however means that, to > compile bash, one needs to compile autotools first.
FWIW Yocto Project/OpenEmbedded autoreconf pretty much everything we can. We bootstrap our own autoconf/automake native tools too. To do that you effectively need m4, perl and gnu-config and we assume perl from the host system. Cheers, Richard