https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3738
Bug ID: 3738 Summary: References to autoreconf Product: Portable OpenSSH Version: 9.9p1 Hardware: All OS: All Status: NEW Severity: minor Priority: P5 Component: Documentation Assignee: unassigned-b...@mindrot.org Reporter: keith.s.thomp...@gmail.com In https://anongit.mindrot.org/openssh.git, the README.md and INSTALL files refer to running autoreconf to generate the configure script if building from a checked out git repo. As of release 9.9 (tag V_9_9_P1), the configure script is checked into the git repo, so it can be built without first running autoreconf. Running autoreconf anyway is harmless (on my system it adds an empty line to the end of the configure script), so this is unlikely to cause any problems. 9.9 is the first and so far only release that has the configure script in the git repo. Presumably some local changes might invalidate the configure script and require re-running autoreconf, but I suspect that's not likely to be an issue -- and it already applies to building from a tarball with local changes. Suggested solutions: 1. Leave it alone and don't worry about it. 2. Update README.md and INSTALL with more discussion about when it's necessary to run autoreconf. 3. Remove the configure script from the git repo, forcing users to run autoreconf. (Unrelated: Both README and README.md exist, but they have different content. That feels odd.) -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching the assignee of the bug. _______________________________________________ openssh-bugs mailing list openssh-bugs@mindrot.org https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-bugs