Hi Nigel,

You've convinced me that this probably shouldn't go into the tree.

Nigel Taylor writes:
> If you look in git repositories like github, the tar ball created
> automatically is not the same as the tar ball distributed, they have
> some process for creating the distribution tar ball and including just
> those autoconf archive macros required, so doing a git clone of github
> project, and building within the clone you might need the autoconf
> archive, this is not about building ports.

Unfortunately, this is a common problem on Github: they tend *not* to
provide dist tarballs, and they don't keep generated configure scripts
in Git. So you have no choice but to fetch the autogenerated "tarballs"
of the source using GH_*, and run autoconf yourself. Yet another example
of bad upstream behavior that we have to push against to keep our
sanity...

-- 
Anthony J. Bentley

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