Mathias Burén wrote:

base-devel is a group which includes patch, make etc.

2009/4/7 Angel Velásquez <angvp@archlinux.com.ve>

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You don't need to depend on automake because it's in base-devel

I said "make", I've installed (office machine) with the FTP image, and I don't had make :o, and neither patch

-- Angel Velásquez angvp @ irc.freenode.net Linux Counter: #359909

cf: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/13407 for discussion on this point