On 03/02/2012 10:02 AM, Rhys Ulerich wrote: >>> On 03/02/2012 05:45 AM, Eric Blake wrote: >>>> The Autoconf team is considering releasing only .xz files for 2.69; >>>> if this would be a hardship for you, and you need the .gz or .bz2 >>>> release, please speak up now. > > Would only having xz introduce a chicken-and-egg bootstrapping > problem? I notice xz-utils (http://tukaani.org/xz/) use Autoconf. This is no more of a bootstrap problem than the fact that autoconf depends on m4 and m4 uses Autoconf. Remember, xz-utils and m4 can be installed from tarball without requiring autoconf, because an autoconf-generated configure script (which is what xz and m4 use in their tarballs) does not itself require autoconf. If you have a virgin system, with none of GNU m4, autoconf, nor xz installed, then the solution is to install xz from tarball, m4 from tarball, then autoconf from tarball. That's good enough for most people. If you further want to contribute to any one of the three .git projects, or use bleeding edge git builds, you now have enough installed prerequisites to also bootstrap the git projects. -- Eric Blake eblake@xxxxxxxxxx +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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