On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 1:53 AM, Stephan Müller <muell...@math.hu-berlin.de> wrote: > Hello, > > building difftools (from Oct 2015) fails without gperf. A check for > gperf should be added to the configure script. > > I am not really into it, but autoconf should be able to recognize this > dependency itself? Any Ideas?
Thank you for the report. That was a bug, indeed. The attached patch records the requirement in bootstrap.conf, so that those building from DVCS notice it. Others should not require gperf, because the gperf-generated files are always generated and up-to-date in a distribution tarball.
From dba613a0de51217149b015c2ff4acb1b8519a42c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering <meyer...@fb.com> Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2015 19:29:37 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] build: add gperf to the list of required programs MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit * bootstrap.conf (buildreq): Add gperf to the list. Reported by Stephan Müller in http://debbugs.gnu.org/21945 --- bootstrap.conf | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/bootstrap.conf b/bootstrap.conf index 3ab2c8b..af4f35a 100644 --- a/bootstrap.conf +++ b/bootstrap.conf @@ -155,6 +155,7 @@ automake 1.12.2 autopoint - gettext - git 1.4.4 +gperf - gzip - help2man - makeinfo - -- 2.6.2
