Re: gnome developer docs - not sgml

[Havoc Pennington <rhpennin midway uchicago edu>]

On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
> Unfortunately, automake requires both GNU make and GNU CC to do
> dependencies, which is a big hurdle given my preferences.  We discussed
> removing this automake requirement on the automake list a while back;
> basically Autoconf needs to have an AC_MAKEDEPEND macro, and then
> automake can take it from there.
> 

This is only for development though, right? I think when you "make dist"
the resulting tarball works just fine with most any reasonable ANSI C
compiler. It's just CVS that requires GNU CC, automake, autoconf, etc.;
the end user doesn't need any of these things in theory.

Havoc