[krbdev.mit.edu #8216] About configure script

[Zheng@krbdev.mit.edu]

Isn't this the official source repo?
https://github.com/krb5/krb5

Thanks Tom for the clarifying. 

Regards,
Kai

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Yu via RT [mailto:rt-comment at krbdev.mit.edu] 
Sent: Saturday, July 11, 2015 7:33 AM
To: Zheng, Kai
Subject: Re: [krbdev.mit.edu #8216] About configure script

<Zheng at krbdev.mit.edu>, "Kai  via RT" <rt-comment at krbdev.mit.edu>
writes:

> In http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/krb5-1.13/doc/build/doing_build.html, it says below:
> In the Kerberos V5 source directory, there is a configure script which automatically determines the compilation environment and ...
>
> But looking at the latest source codes, the mentioned configure script isn't actually there. I guess the documentation should be updated, and no big problem here, since util/reconf can be used to generate it.

Are you looking at an official source distribution, or at the latest source tree checked into the repository?

We could clarify that statement to emphasize that it only applies to official source distributions, and that you will have to run util/reconf if you're working from a checked-out source tree.