Re: [tcpdump-security] [libpcap] Problem with version 1.9.0

[Michael Richardson <mcr () sandelman ca>]

Guy Harris via tcpdump-security <tcpdump-security () tcpdump org> wrote:
    >>> Need autoreconf.

    > I've updated libpcap-release-howto.md, in the
    >git () bpf tcpdump org:maintainer-notes repository, to include the
    >autoreconf step (and to clean up the formatting, to work as standard
    >Markdown, as well as replacing the specific version numbers with
    >variables).

    > By the way, is there still a good reason to have the configure scripts
    > and config.h.in files checked into Git, or should we remove them from
    > Git and require people who build from Git to generate the configure
    > scripts themselves (they're probably doing that as developers, so I
    > don't mind requiring them to have autoconf installed)?  Generating the
    > configure scripts is already part of the release process.

I've mixed feelings about this.

Let's switch over to cmake as our official mechanism now... i.e. have
travis, etc. use it in preference to configure.

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