Re: Possible extension, to make porting easier (autoport)

2001-04-28 Thread Michael Still
vial, but perhaps your proposed autoport is overkill. I you are finding things that are not portable, but are not covered by autoscan, then perhaps patching autoscan is the path of least resistance. Patches to libiberty should also be possible if required. Cheers, Mikal -- Michael Still ([EMAIL PROTE

Re: security vs. configure

2001-04-23 Thread Michael Still
On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Tom Holroyd wrote: > On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Michael Still wrote: > > > Autoconf could run gnupg / pgp (if present) after generating the configure > > script and produce a checksum on the script. If this was a default action, > > then it would increase

Re: security vs. configure

2001-04-23 Thread Michael Still
On 23 Apr 2001, Russ Allbery wrote: > Michael Still <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Autoconf could run gnupg / pgp (if present) after generating the > > configure script and produce a checksum on the script. If this was a > > default action, then it would inc

Re: security vs. configure

2001-04-23 Thread Michael Still
/ pgp (if present) after generating the configure script and produce a checksum on the script. If this was a default action, then it would increase the chance of developers having at least some checksumming. It doesn't fix doubt over the intentions of the developer though. Mikal -- Michael Still (

Re: not enough testing in ./configure

2001-01-08 Thread Michael Still
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Tamas SZERB wrote: > toma@titanic:~/pptpd-1.0.1$ autoheader > Autoconf requires GNU m4 1.1 or later > toma@titanic:~/pptpd-1.0.1$ echo $? I'm not sure I follow your post, but autoconf requires GNU m4, which can be downloaded from the GNU website. Cheers, Mika