Ticket History #8216: clarify when to use util/reconf

# Fri Jul 10 19:27:01 2015 "Zheng, Kai" <kai.zheng@intel.com> - Ticket created

From:	"Zheng, Kai" <kai.zheng@intel.com>
To:	"krb5-bugs@mit.edu" <krb5-bugs@mit.edu>
Subject:	About configure script
Date:	Fri, 10 Jul 2015 22:39:45 +0000

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Hello,

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.

Regards,

Kai

# Fri Jul 10 19:33:26 2015 tlyu (Taylor Yu) - Correspondence added

From:	Tom Yu <tlyu@mit.edu>
To:	rt@krbdev.mit.edu
Subject:	Re: [krbdev.mit.edu #8216] About configure script
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>
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> 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.

# Fri Jul 10 21:28:22 2015 "Zheng, Kai" <kai.zheng@intel.com> - Comments added

From:	"Zheng, Kai" <kai.zheng@intel.com>
To:	"rt-comment@krbdev.mit.edu" <rt-comment@krbdev.mit.edu>
Subject:	RE: [krbdev.mit.edu #8216] About configure script
Date:	Sat, 11 Jul 2015 01:28:17 +0000
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Isn't this the official source repo?
https://github.com/krb5/krb5

Thanks Tom for the clarifying.

Regards,
Kai

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-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Yu via RT [mailto:rt-comment@krbdev.mit.edu]
Sent: Saturday, July 11, 2015 7:33 AM
To: Zheng, Kai
Subject: Re: [krbdev.mit.edu #8216] About configure script

<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.

# Thu Sep 10 00:02:00 2015 tlyu (Taylor Yu) - Subject changed from 'About configure script' to 'clarify when to use util/reconf'