On Fri, Aug 05, 2016 at 08:53:46PM +0200, Andreas Enge wrote: > The autoreconf phase is strange. Why is it suddenly needed? If there is no > way around it, you should at least add a comment.
I notice that when projects move to GitHub, they sometimes forget to cut a new release. GitHub automatically generates a tarball of the source tree for each tag, and those are not bootstrapped. That's probably what happened here, and it's worth an upstream bug report, IMO.