<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">On Mar 24, 2021, at 1:17 PM, Werner Koch <<a href="mailto:wk@gnupg.org" class="">wk@gnupg.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">On Wed, 24 Mar 2021 13:03, Jeffrey Walton said:<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Until you have to autoreconf and the tools are missing or too old...<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">In GnuPG project you should never do autoreconf. We distribute the<br class="">required files for running autoconf and automake. This way we get a<br class="">stable config system which is not suject to all the friction metween<br class="">different macro use.<br class=""><br class="">Regarding M1, if you config.sub has stable support for it, we should<br class="">update these files and then see what other fixes are required. In<br class="">genera; autoconf generated configure scripts auto-adjust to a wide<br class="">variety of Unix systems and you only need to tweak things for some minor<br class="">cases - well, Apple is probably the worst player here.<br class=""><br class="">Having said this, I just ask for some patience and until we support it.<br class="">Quick hacks are of course okay - it is free software. Unfortunately<br class="">they have a tendency to never go away and still show up in web searches<br class="">after years<br class=""><br class="">Shalom-Salam,<br class=""><br class=""> Werner<br class=""><br class="">-- <br class="">Die Gedanken sind frei. Ausnahmen regelt ein Bundesgesetz.<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">However, running autoreconf does make patching the configure script unnecessary.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In other words, the macros used to build the packaged configure script are outdated.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">Marius</span></div><div class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">--</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Marius Schamschula</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br class=""></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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