Re: nmap's bundled libpcre and automake

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 11:38:19AM +0200, Johannes Nixdorf wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 03:10:03PM -0800, David Fifield wrote:
> > I tried this patch, but then after "autoreconf", I get an error with
> > "make":
> >
> > Makefile:15: *** missing separator.  Stop.
> >
> > The patch seems to leave the SET_MAKE substitution undefined. Do you see
> > the same? What are your circumstances that you have to run autoreconf?
>
> After learning more about autoconf/m4 I redid this patch in a way that
> leaves the macro intact while making autoreconf think automake isn't used.
> I hope this patch has better chances of being accepted upstream.

This is indeed a better solution, but we won't accept this patch. It's
such a narrow use case that I recommend you just add the patch to your
build system, or else run just autoconf in the libpcre directory.

Also note that the configure problem in
http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2012/q1/1 has been fixed since a long time,
so you may not even need autoreconf anymore.

David Fifield
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