Re: [bug-diffutils] I'd like to release 3.3

[Jim Meyering]

Paul Eggert wrote:

> On 03/22/2013 09:31 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
>
>> Network connectivity?
>
> Yes, that's what it was.  A corrupted DNS cache, apparently.
> (Which leads me to wonder: how trustworthy is that part of
> the build procedure, anyway?  But moving on....)

Interesting point.
But as you say, moving on...

>> I haven't investigated that for some time, but thought it was
>> due to my (personal) use of gettext that's a little older than the
>> latest, in which I presume that offending macro use has been removed.
>
> Unfortunately it was more complicated than that.  Even with a newer
> gettext it installed macros from gettext 0.17.  I fiddled with it
> and the following patch fixed things for me.  It may be a bit
> belt-and-suspenders, in that it insists on 0.18.2 when that
> might not strictly be necessary with the other changes I made,
> but to some extent I quit while I was ahead.
>
> Subject: [PATCH] maint: update build procedure to recent gettext etc.
>
> * bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add vararrays.
> (needed_gnulib_files, unnecessary_gettext_files): New vars.
> (bootstrap_post_import_hook): New function, to implement these vars.
> (excluded_files): Remove; 'bootstrap' no longer supports this.
> Its function is now performed by unnecessary_gettext_files.
> (buildreq): Update automake to 1.12.2, to avoid CVE-2012-3386.
> * configure.ac (AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION): Bump from 0.17 to 0.18.2,
> to lessen the probability that we'll have outlandishly old files
> during a build.
> * m4/vararrays.m4: Remove from repository, as we now use the
> gnulib version.

Thank you for doing all that.
With that, I'll plan to release tomorrow.