On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 8:30 PM, Jim Meyering <j...@meyering.net> wrote: > 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.
I have just pushed that patch.
