[26558] in CVS-changelog-for-Kerberos-V5
krb5 commit: Remove mention of util/autoconf
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Yu)
Thu May 17 15:41:24 2012
Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 15:41:22 -0400
From: Tom Yu <tlyu@mit.edu>
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https://github.com/krb5/krb5/commit/a2d47235d4b3ce1a51767ffb6bcabb0460a9387d
commit a2d47235d4b3ce1a51767ffb6bcabb0460a9387d
Author: Tom Yu <tlyu@mit.edu>
Date: Thu May 17 14:18:27 2012 -0400
Remove mention of util/autoconf
We no longer use our own customized version of autoconf, so remove
mentions of the src/util/autoconf directory where that used to be.
Reported by W. Trevor King.
ticket: 7139 (new)
doc/rst_source/krb_build/doing_build.rst | 22 ++++++++--------------
1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/rst_source/krb_build/doing_build.rst b/doc/rst_source/krb_build/doing_build.rst
index cadbb50..d16b73d 100644
--- a/doc/rst_source/krb_build/doing_build.rst
+++ b/doc/rst_source/krb_build/doing_build.rst
@@ -6,26 +6,20 @@ Using autoconf
(If you are not a developer, you can skip this section.)
-In most of the Kerberos V5 source directories, there is a configure
-script which automatically determines the compilation environment and
-creates the proper Makefiles for a particular platform. These
-configure files are generated using autoconf, which can be found in
-the ``src/util/autoconf`` directory in the distribution.
+In the Kerberos V5 source directory, there is a configure script which
+automatically determines the compilation environment and creates the
+proper Makefiles for a particular platform. This configure script is
+generated using autoconf, which you should already have installed.
Normal users will not need to worry about running autoconf; the
-distribution comes with the configure files already prebuilt.
-
-Note that in order to run autoconf, you must have GNU m4 in your path.
-Before you use the autoconf in the Kerberos V5 source tree, you may
-also need to run configure, and then run make in the
-``src/util/autoconf`` directory in order to properly set up autoconf.
+distribution comes with the configure script already prebuilt.
One tool which is provided for the convenience of developers can be
found in ``src/util/reconf``. This program should be run while the
current directory is the top source directory. It will automatically
-rebuild any configure files which need rebuilding. If you know that
-you have made a change that will require that all the configure files
-need to be rebuilt from scratch, specify the **--force** option::
+rebuild the configure script if it needs rebuilding. If you know that
+you have made a change that will require that the configure file be
+rebuilt from scratch, specify the **--force** option::
cd /u1/krb5-1.9/src
./util/reconf --force
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