From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: GCC depending on perl?
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 10:57:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <or66a4y0sc.fsf@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3BB347B0.3080100@cygnus.com>
On Sep 27, 2001, Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com> wrote:
> (I know about the pre-built manpages)
> A user of a distribution gets different behavour and different results
> depending on if and which perl they have installed.
No. If they get a release tarball, perl won't be used at all, because
the man-pages will have already been built, and their timestamps will
be correct. The problem is when you get a CVS tarball. You're
supposed to have a ``building environment'' for this to work, which
includes bison, autoconf, automake, perl and perhaps other tools I
forget now. These are not necessary for releases, though.
> A distribution's build behavour should be far more robust than that.
It is more robust than that. But that's the distribution, not the
random CVS snapshot.
--
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-09-27 10:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-09-22 19:29 Andrew Cagney
2001-09-27 5:39 ` Alexandre Oliva
2001-09-27 8:37 ` Andrew Cagney
2001-09-27 10:57 ` Alexandre Oliva [this message]
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