#3671: warning installing mutt-1.5.22 (release) on OS X 10.9
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Reporter: william | Owner: kevin8t8
Type: defect | Status: assigned
Priority: trivial | Milestone: 1.6
Component: build | Version: 1.5.22
Resolution: | Keywords:
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Changes (by kevin8t8):
* owner: mutt-dev => kevin8t8
* status: new => assigned
Comment:
This is nothing too serious, but does show a problem with the release
process.
Looking at the 1.5.22 and 1.5.23 release tarballs, the "missing" script is
older than the version of automake used (in part) to generate the
configure script. Newer automake includes a revised version of the
"missing" script, and the "--is-lightweight" flag is used by configure to
make sure "missing" is the newer version.
The problem is that "autoreconf --install" won't reinstall the automake
tools (e.g. missing, compile, depcomp, install-sh) if they are already
there. Also, even "make maintainer-clean" doesn't clean up those files.
So if the release is generated from an older clone of the source, the old
version of those tools will end up in the tarball; while the configure
script will be rebuilt using the latest versions in (e.g.)
/usr/share/aclocal/missing.m4.
I suggest going forward, we always make a pristine clone and generate the
releases off of that.
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Ticket URL: <http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/3671#comment:2>
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