On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Santiago Vila wrote:
> In general, Debian source packages should not need to build-depend on
> automake. In theory, the author should already care to create an
> original tarball with all the required things already created
> (in fact, it is part of GNU standards that packages should not depend
> on autoconf, automake, etc. to build).
I would love to do so but it happened to me that the files I created seem
to depend from automake. I do not call any automake script - just
the usual
configure; make; make install
but I had to add a build-dependency from automake according to #171869.
Since then I have to fight against automake versions on different architectures.
I'm perfectly able to compile the wordnet package on i386 without any automake
installed and I would love if other architectures would be clever enough
to compile also without this stuff. Any patches are welcome which would
successfully remove automake* build dependency on *every* architecture.
Kind regards
Andreas.
