Ben Reser wrote on Sun, Apr 07, 2013 at 22:34:19 -0700: > 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.
s/doesn't/can't/, according to (oral?) ASF policy...
