On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 12:43 PM Niels Möller <[email protected]> wrote: > > Jeffrey Walton <[email protected]> writes: > > >> From which autoconf version? I'd be happy to require a recent autoconf > >> and drop this code if it's no longer needed. When this hack was added, > >> it was the case that one or the other of > > > > Please NO. Don't require an updated Autotools version. > > Huh? The configure script is included in the release tarball. You > *don't* need to even have autoconf installed to build the library. > That's half of the point of using autoconf at all. > > Requirement on autoconf only matters for those who want to modify > configure.ac, or build from a git repo.
Yes, we often have to patch and then autoreconf. See, for example, https://github.com/noloader/Build-Scripts/blob/master/build-nettle.sh . Jeff _______________________________________________ nettle-bugs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lysator.liu.se/mailman/listinfo/nettle-bugs
