Eric Blake wrote: > gperf --version > GNU gperf 2.7.2 Come on! gperf 3.0.1 was released four years ago, and you are still using its seven year old predecessor?
> gperf is not on the list of widely available programs, so it must not be > invoked by a normal user when compiling a tarball Right. And the Makefile rules guarantee this: The generated iconv_open-*.h files are listed in EXTRA_DIST, which will cause them to be present in the tarballs. But you are probably working off the coreutils CVS, therefore you need up-to-date tools. Just like with 'bison'. > but requiring maintainers to have gperf available might be reasonable if > you could rework this to use a command line that will work with > commonly-installed gperf versions. I can only feel sorry for the users of distros where the distro packagers don't upgrade a program to a new version even in 4 years. And gperf-3.0.x is _really_ not hard to upgrade: it compiles out of the box on all platforms and is backward compatible with earlier versions. Bruno
