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From: Tom Yu <tlyu@mit.edu>
To: rt@krbdev.mit.edu
Subject: Re: [krbdev.mit.edu #8216] About configure script
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Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 19:33:24 -0400
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<Zheng@krbdev.mit.edu>, "Kai  via RT" <rt-comment@krbdev.mit.edu>
writes:

> In http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/krb5-1.13/doc/build/doing_build.html, it says below:
> In the Kerberos V5 source directory, there is a configure script which automatically determines the compilation environment and ...
>
> But looking at the latest source codes, the mentioned configure script isn't actually there. I guess the documentation should be updated, and no big problem here, since util/reconf can be used to generate it.

Are you looking at an official source distribution, or at the latest
source tree checked into the repository?

We could clarify that statement to emphasize that it only applies to
official source distributions, and that you will have to run util/reconf
if you're working from a checked-out source tree.