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Why do I need autoconf, bison, xgettext, automake, etc?

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Why do I need autoconf, bison, xgettext, automake, etc?

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If you’re using diffs up dated from one snapshot to the next, or if you’re using the SVN repository, you may need several additional programs to build GCC. These include, but are not necessarily limited to autoconf, automake, bison, and xgettext. This is necessary because neither diff nor cvs keep timestamps correct. This causes problems for generated files as “make” may think those generated files are out of date and try to regenerate them. An easy way to work around this problem is to use the gcc_update script in the contrib subdirectory of GCC, which handles this transparently without requiring installation of any additional tools. When building from diffs or SVN or if you modified some sources, you may also need to obtain development versions of some GNU tools, as the production versions do not necessarily handle all features needed to rebuild GCC. In general, the current versions of these tools from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/ will work. At present, Autoconf 2.50 is not supported, and

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