On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 8:36 AM, Daniel Shahaf <danie...@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.
