Ben Reser wrote on Sun, Apr 07, 2013 at 22:34:19 -0700:
> On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 8:36 AM, Daniel Shahaf <danielsh_at_elego.de> wrote:
> > Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote on Sun, Apr 07, 2013 at 09:37:48 -0400:
> >> Minor changes include the recent discard of support for RHEL 4 in the
> >> subverson-1.7.x build structure, and switching from using "autogen.sh" to
> >> simply "aclocal" and "autoconf" instead of building a custom backported
> >> Python locally on older systems, just to get the ./configure to work.
> >
> > Couldn't you just use the 'configure' script in the tarball? If you do
> > that, neither autoconf nor python is required.
>
> He can't because he's patching things that go into configure. If you
> follow his links you can see the patches that are being included.
> Some of them probably should be made on our side. But that doesn't
> happen if nobody submits them.
s/doesn't/can't/, according to (oral?) ASF policy...
Received on 2013-04-08 09:51:06 CEST