Re: Could automake-generated Makefiles required GNU make?

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Thu, 24 Nov 2011, Peter Rosin wrote:
> There is one possibly hard bootstrapping problem. What if you want to
> deploy some package that does not need a C compiler on some system that
> lacks both a C compiler and GNU Make? You would have problems there for
> sure. Some number-crunching fortran-centric piece comes to mind, or some
> locked down financial system where a cobol compiler or something is
> present, but no C compiler.

Is it possible to run baseline Autoconf configure without a working C 
compiler?  Automake depends on Autoconf.

Regardless, I do agree that building GNU Make from source introduces a 
requirement for a working C compiler.

Bob
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