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Re: proposal to fork the build-tools projects


From: Bruce Korb
Subject: Re: proposal to fork the build-tools projects
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 15:44:28 -0700

Dean Povey wrote:

> The easiest way would be for ./configure to find the C compiler and build
> a simple utility binary from source, then use that for the rest of the
> configuration.

Problem is that by the time you've figured out how to do that,
you're most the way done.  Now, if you depended upon that
binary being pre-installed, then you're most the way done
before you even begin.  :-)




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