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Olly Betts olly at survex.com
Fri Dec 16 03:29:20 GMT 2016


On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 01:54:42AM +0000, Eric Lindblad wrote:
> Obviously autoconf is indicated for a bootstrap when xapian is obtained from
> Github, but, the package maintainer for the MSYS2/MINGW xapian-core1.4.1 had
> not listed autoconf as a dependency.
> 
> Therefore when compiling from xapian from source should autoconf be present?

Not when building from a tarball, so the package is correct not to have
such a dependency.  That's how autoconf (and automake and libtool) work -
the maintainer generates scripts and makefiles which should only need
standard Unix tools to use when building the software.

Cheers,
    Olly



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