[PATCHES] Enable building using GNU Automake 1.13, 1.14

[Werner Koch]

On Sun, 25 Aug 2013 14:57, christian at quelltextlich.at said:

> But actually, the motivation for the patches stems from Debian
> Jessie / Sid users that were asking me about why the GnuPG ecosystem
> does not compile for them.

AFAICS, Sid's latest Automake version is 1.11.  In any case README.GIT
describes how to use an older autotools version.  For example:

   AUTOMAKE_SUFFIX=1.11 ./autogen.sh

> Building GnuPG and its relevant dependencies by hand is already
> hard. And I fully understand that this hurdle cannot be torn down at
> once for free.

Well, time to update the scripts/gpg-w32-dev/ speeo scripts to git and
tell people that they are also useful for Unix.

> P.S.: I assume that other, similar patches (e.g.: Fixing compilation
> for Texinfo >=5) will go down the same road, which I am totally fine

I fear that the changes to texinfo which - to what I know - made it
again real slow are enough of a reason to stay with the old texinfo for
now.  Eventually we need to add index creating and function name
templates to org-mode and switch the docs over to org-mode.

> with. But ... is it nevertheless ok to post such patches to this list,
> so people can at least find patches to help them build GnuPG and

Sure.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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