[Bug 1532] Review Request -- First Test of Loading tarfile info IMFS

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--- Comment #7 from Ralf Corsepius <ralf.corsepius at rtems.org>  2010-05-28 00:14:36 ---
> Are you saying I do not need to use aclocal/canonicalize-tools.m4 in an
> external application ?
Yes. 

External, rtems-independent packages should not use them. They should use
vanilla autotools macros combined with appropriate CFLAGS etc.

configure --host=<target> --prefix=<..> --libdir=<..> CFLAGS="<...>"

> If I do not use it I am forced to repeat what is in these files on every
> application I wish to use autotools on.
What for? Could you elaborate?

Properly implemented, modern autoconf based configurations are supposed to
"work-out-of-the-box".

> Is there a technical issue with have a common master set ?
Yes. It's a matter of design. They are supposed to be independent.

Background: Somewhat oversimplified, the RTEMS source tree actually 
consists of 3 "supposed to be independent" sub-packages:
cpukit
testsuites
c/src

This means: None of these sub-packages must have a (file-) dependency pointing
into another sub-package. Each of these is supposed to be packagable into a
separate tarball of its own and to be usable on its own.

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