Jeffrey Walton wrote:
skylake:gzip$ git clonehttps://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/gzip.git skylake:gzip$ cd gzip skylake:gzip$ autoreconf -i -f sh: build-aux/git-version-gen: No such file or directory
Instead of running autoreconf, please run './bootstrap'.For older platforms don't bother with all the bootstrap stuff. Just bootstrap and configure on a new machine with up-to-date tools, then type 'make dist', then copy the distribution tarball to the obsolete platform and build from that.
