Subject: bug#21945: closed (Re: [bug-diffutils] bug#21945: Bug: Build dependency gperf)

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2015 04:31:02 +0000

Your bug report

#21945: Bug: Build dependency gperf

which was filed against the diffutils package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: [bug-diffutils] bug#21945: Bug: Build dependency gperf
From: Jim Meyering <[email-masked]>
To: Stephan Müller <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2015 20:30:15 -0800
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 1:53 AM, Stephan Müller
<[email-masked]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> building difftools (from Oct 2015) fails without gperf. A check for
> gperf should be added to the configure script.
>
> I am not really into it, but autoconf should be able to recognize this
> dependency itself? Any Ideas?

Thank you for the report. That was a bug, indeed.
The attached patch records the requirement in bootstrap.conf,
so that those building from DVCS notice it. Others should not
require gperf, because the gperf-generated files are always
generated and up-to-date in a distribution tarball.
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From: Jim Meyering <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2015 19:29:37 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] build: add gperf to the list of required programs
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* bootstrap.conf (buildreq): Add gperf to the list.
Reported by Stephan Müller in http://debbugs.gnu.org/21945
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 bootstrap.conf | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/bootstrap.conf b/bootstrap.conf
index 3ab2c8b..af4f35a 100644
--- a/bootstrap.conf
+++ b/bootstrap.conf
@@ -155,6 +155,7 @@ automake   1.12.2
 autopoint  -
 gettext    -
 git        1.4.4
+gperf      -
 gzip       -
 help2man   -
 makeinfo   -
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2.6.2

Subject: Bug: Build dependency gperf
From: Stephan Müller <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2015 10:53:44 +0100
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Hello,

building difftools (from Oct 2015) fails without gperf. A check for
gperf should be added to the configure script.

I am not really into it, but autoconf should be able to recognize this
dependency itself? Any Ideas?

 ~stephan