[Nix-dev] autotools

[Eelco Dolstra]

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 16:43:09 +0100
Eelco Visser <visser at cs.uu.nl> wrote:

> Why are autoconf, automake, and libtool not provided in the nixpkgs
> channel?

Because Automake probably doesn't work right outside of a Nix build, since
you have to set Autoconf's search path to find the Automake macros, or
something.  This could of course be fixed through a wrapper around the
autoconf command.

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Eelco Dolstra | http://www.cs.uu.nl/~eelco