Of course such a long message had to leave something out :-( On Jul 25, 2008, Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > These pieces were thus developed within this environment that combined > GNU software and Linux. Just like Linux itself, these other pieces > were created dependent on GNU infrastructure, and only recently did it > become possible to use Linux with other low-level libraries instead of > GNU libc. That said, even distributions that adopt such alternate > libraries still include a significant number of GNU components to make > for a complete functional system. And then, there's autotools. In order to get rid of all GNU software, one must also refrain from using GNU autoconf-generated configure scripts and configure-generated Makefiles and header files; GNU automake-generated Makefile templates, and GNU libtool scripts. Replacements for these tools would probably have to be written, because converting all the auto-configuration and building machinery encoded in configure.ac and Makefile.am would be an insane amount of work. *That* would be really fun to watch :-) -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} FSFLA Board Member ¡Sé Libre! => http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
