Ticket #62 (closed defect: invalid)

Opened 2 years ago

Last modified 2 years ago

Bogus m4 host requirement in CLFS-2.0

Reported by: alexander@linuxfromscratch.org Assigned to: clfs-commits@lists.cross-lfs.org.
Priority: major Milestone: CLFS Sysroot 1.0.0
Component: BOOK Version: CLFS Sysroot 1.0.0
Keywords: hostdep Cc:

Description

To reproduce: install Debian Etch, then run there "apt-get install gawk build-essential". Gawk is for iana-etc. Then try building CLFS-2.0 from there. The build will fail on Bison because of missing m4.

However, m4 is only a run-time requirement for bison, so some pre-seeding of config.cache should happen to avoid this host dependency.

Change History

07/22/06 03:36:52 changed by alexander@linuxfromscratch.org

Forget it. m4 is required for autoconf, so it is indeed a host requirement.

09/11/06 18:15:37 changed by jciccone

  • status changed from new to closed.
  • resolution set to invalid.