[gnutls-help] Use of autogen ?

[Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos]

On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 8:29 PM, jonetsu <jonetsu at teksavvy.com> wrote:
> I am trying to build the recent Debian GnuTLS package 3.3.17 on a somewhat older Debian system.  It needs autogen which in turn needs Guile.  Guile brings an awful lot of dependency problems.  As far as I can see, autogen is used to process large amounts of text.  Is it needed by GnuTLS apart form I presume, documentation purposes ?

You don't need autogen to build the releases of gnutls. It is only
needed if you are building from the git repository.

regards,
Nikos