Re: Building coreutils in Linux From Scratch

[Mike Frysinger]

On Thursday 24 August 2006 15:33, mwoehlke wrote:
> Matthew Burgess wrote:
> > We could just as easily patch procps to prevent it from installing its
> > versions of those two programs, but as we're preventing installation of
> > `su' as it is, it made sense to suppress coreutils kill and uptime in
> > the same patch.
>
> I'd like to jump in and make a comment here... I have coreutils (5.97)
> built on nine different platforms, but haven't even attempted to tackle
> procps as it is not auto*-based (and so far I have not been motivated to
> track down how to set up the build correctly, much less chase down bugs
> and build errors). Unless procps is fixed/improved, dropping these from
> coreutils means - from my POV - that they will be gone entirely.

the procps maintainer will never accept autotools (his words, not mine) ... i 
sent him a patch to autotool the build system and it was rejected ;)
-mike

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