Re: Could automake-generated Makefiles required GNU make?

[Peter Johansson]

On 11/24/11 11:40 AM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> 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.
Hi Bob,

You already know this, of course, but this is not about running 
Automake; this is about building projects that have Automake generated 
Makefile.in. You don't need Autoconf to accomplish this but only 
whatever is required for './configure && make' to work.

Thanks,
Peter