building gnupg master from git (oddities and workarounds)

[martijn.list]

On 06/25/2014 11:03 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> I'm trying to build gnupg from the master branch in git, on an 
> up-to-date debian unstable system.  I've read README.GIT.
> 
> I'm on commit b5f95c1.
> 
> I build for the first time with:
> 
> ./autogen.sh --force
> 
> which tells me i should run:
> 
> ./configure --sysconfdir=/etc --enable-maintainer-mode
> --enable-symcryptrun --enable-mailto --enable-gpgtar && make
> 
> i run that command, and ./configure runs for a while before
> returning with an error:
> 
> ... configure: checking system features for estream checking that
> generated files are newer than configure... done checking that
> generated files are newer than configure... done configure:
> creating ./config.status config.status: error: cannot find input
> file: `m4/Makefile.in'
> 
> I can work around this with:
> 
> automake --add-missing
> 
> and then re-running:
> 
> ./autogen.sh --force
> 
> the ./configure command now completes, but produces the following
> odd message:
> 
> configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --enable-mailto
> 
> and then make runs to completion.
> 
> 
> 
> Perhaps "automake --add-missing" should be run early on
> autogen.sh?
> 
> i'm not sure what to recommend about --enable-mailto.

I'm using the following script with success:

https://github.com/Wikinaut/utils/wiki#How_to_compile_GnuPG_gpg_from_the_github_sources


Kind regards,

Martijn Brinkers

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