Hi,
I’m trying to backport IBM Z patches to gzip version 1.9. The code
changes themselves apply without problems, however, I also need to
create a diff for configure and other generated build files. If I just
use whatever distro I have at hand for this, there will be a lot of
noise from autoconf and automake version mismatch, so I'm trying to
figure out which exact versions were used for the 1.9 release.
I'm observing a few surprising things, and it would be great if someone
could help me resolve them and get to the point where I can reproduce
the 1.9 release from git sources:
- The released ./Makefile.in contains:
distdir-am: $(DISTFILES)
which means that automake version used contained the commit ac47c2:
"make dist" did not depend on $(BUILT_SOURCES) from Nov 28 2017.
At the same time, the released ./build-aux/ar-lib contains:
# Copyright (C) 2010-2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
which means that automake must have been older than commit d8add5:
maint: Update copyright years to 2017. from Mar 2 2017.
This is clearly impossible, and the only other version indication that I
could find is:
Makefile.in generated by automake 1.15a
which does not really help, since this correspond to a lot of commits.
Can it be that a private branch was used?
- The released ./configure contains:
Generated by GNU Autoconf 2.69.193-8974
However, 8974 is not an existing commit id. Again, would it be correct
to assume that this is coming from a private branch? The closest
version I could come up with is 2.69.193-dfb0.
- The am__DIST_COMMON list in the released ./Makefile.in contains
build-aux/ar-lib.
However, there is no AM_PROG_AR or similar macros in the released
./configure.ac. When I do `make dist`, it is not generated. Where is
it supposed to come from?
- The released ./aclocal.m4 contains:
# po.m4 serial 24 (gettext-0.19)
However, the released ./configure.ac does not contain
AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION - where is po.m4 coming from?
Best regards,
Ilya
