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#1 2015-03-06 06:34:08

pypi
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Registered: 2014-04-22
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Does building a 'new' m4 for a CLFS system do anything?

Hi!

I've been fiddling with my toolchain build, and I was wondering what exactly the point of building a brand new m4 was when my Arch system already has one installed.
The obvious reasons (to me, anyway) would be:

- I get to choose the version of m4 used.
- It's a 'clean' package, ie no other bits and pieces installed.

I should note that CLFS does this, and I'm (mostly) following what they do, albeit with a few changes.

I'm worried about reason 2, because on Arch there are no patches applied anyway - my version is basically identical to m4 'proper', just with a different installation prefix. I'd also prefer to use the 'system' m4 as much as possible, since it lessens the amount of work I have to do, and the toolchain will only build on machines equipped with pacman anyway.

Being able to cut out similar packages (m4, mpfr, gmp, ...) would be great, since it would shrink the size (and build time) of the toolchain dramatically.

Are there any other reasons to rebuild these packages that I'm not aware of?

Thanks,
pypi

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