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Re: proposal to fork the build-tools projects
From: |
Rüdiger Kuhlmann |
Subject: |
Re: proposal to fork the build-tools projects |
Date: |
Tue, 22 Oct 2002 02:54:21 +0200 |
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>--[Tom Lord]--<address@hidden>
> > It could be that we should tell people to use Bash to build
> > GNU packages if their native shells have trouble handling the
> > job. That would be a smaller change and perhaps worth doing.
> How is `bash' built?
> >> You need to be able to compile the bootstrap packages in minimal
> >> environments, in order to get a very basic GNU environment.
> > I don't think we should do this at all. The smallest version of the
> > GNU system need not be "minimal", and making it so would be extra
> > work, so we should not.
> Well, then I think you agree with me and you should conclude that
> forking as I've suggested is the right thing to do.
Actually no. With every more restriction you place on auto*, the less
portable is auto*. Having to install extra stuff to make things compile may
be okay, but what's if this particular package isn't available on your
platform? And: having the maintainer install a package is much less a
restriction than having the user install an extra package.
So, please show me a bash for AmigaOS to show that resctricting on bash
is a good idea. (Hint: there is none. pdksh is all there is.)
Yours, Rüdiger.
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- Re: proposal to fork the build-tools projects, Tom Lord, 2002/10/18
- Re: proposal to fork the build-tools projects, Tom Tromey, 2002/10/20
- Re: proposal to fork the build-tools projects, Tom Lord, 2002/10/21
- Re: proposal to fork the build-tools projects, Tom Lord, 2002/10/21
- Re: proposal to fork the build-tools projects, Richard Stallman, 2002/10/21
- Re: proposal to fork the build-tools projects, Tom Lord, 2002/10/21
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- Re: proposal to fork the build-tools projects, Richard Stallman, 2002/10/22
- Re: proposal to fork the build-tools projects, Tom Lord, 2002/10/22
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