Re: [help-gengetopt] Build dependencies

[Lorenzo Bettini]

Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray wrote:
> > none of these tools are needed to build gengetopt, they're only needed
> > in some cases if you want to contribute to gengetopt development.
> > They are not even used by gengetopt itself during its execution.
>
> It has been some time, but I am still doubtful about certain things. I
> find that 'valgrind' is necessary to use 'make check' to test the
> build. However what about the others, are they also necessary in some
> section of the "./configure && make && make check && make install"
> dance? It seems not. So why are they still being checked for in the
> configure script, when run from the released tarball?
>
> Happy hacking,
> Debarshi

Hi there

do you mean gengen, bison, flex, etc.?
I could add the maintainer mode to the autotools; in that case, do you 
know whether some checks can be enabled only in maintainer mode?

thanks
        Lorenzo

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