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2017-09-16T13:03:36
Prefer https: URLs In Gnulib, Emacs, etc. we are changing ftp: and http: URLs to use https:, to discourage man-in-the-middle attacks when downloading software. The attached patch propagates these changes upstream to Automake. This patch does not affect files that Automake is downstream of, which I'll patch separately. Althouth the resources are not secret, plain HTTP is vulnerable to malicious routers that tamper with responses from GNU servers, and this sort of thing is all too common when people in some other countries browse US-based websites. See, for example: Aceto G, Botta A, Pescapé A, Awan MF, Ahmad T, Qaisar S. Analyzing internet censorship in Pakistan. RTSI 2016. https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/RTSI.2016.7740626 HTTPS is not a complete solution here, but it can be a significant help. The GNU project regularly serves up code to users, so we should take some care here.
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#! /bin/sh
# Copyright (C) 2003-2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
# any later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
# Make sure aclocal does not overwrite aclocal.m4 needlessly.
# Also make sure automake --no-force does not overwrite Makefile.in needlessly.
. test-init.sh
cat >> configure.ac << 'END'
SOME_DEFS
AC_CONFIG_FILES([sub/Makefile])
END
mkdir sub
: > sub/Makefile.am
cat >> Makefile.am << 'END'
SUBDIRS = sub
include fragment.inc
END
: > fragment.inc
mkdir m4
echo 'AC_DEFUN([SOME_DEFS], [])' > m4/somedefs.m4
# Automake will take aclocal.m4 to be newer if it has the same timestamp
# as Makefile.in. Avoid the confusing by sleeping.
AUTOMAKE_after_aclocal ()
{
$sleep
$AUTOMAKE --no-force
}
# aclocal will rewrite aclocal.m4 unless the input files are all older than the
# existing aclocal.m4 -- sleep to ensure somedefs.m4 has an older timestamp
# than the aclocal.m4 that the next aclocal call will generate.
$sleep
$ACLOCAL -I m4
AUTOMAKE_after_aclocal
touch foo
$sleep
$ACLOCAL -I m4
AUTOMAKE_after_aclocal
# aclocal.m4 and Makefile.in should not have been updated, so 'foo'
# should be younger
is_newest foo aclocal.m4 Makefile.in sub/Makefile.in
$sleep
$ACLOCAL -I m4 --force
is_newest aclocal.m4 foo
# We still use --no-force for automake, but since aclocal.m4 has
# changed all Makefile.ins should be updated.
AUTOMAKE_after_aclocal
is_newest Makefile.in aclocal.m4 foo
is_newest sub/Makefile.in aclocal.m4 foo
$sleep
touch m4/somedefs.m4
$sleep
$ACLOCAL -I m4
AUTOMAKE_after_aclocal
# aclocal.m4 should have been updated, although its contents haven't
# changed.
is_newest aclocal.m4 m4/somedefs.m4
is_newest Makefile.in m4/somedefs.m4
is_newest sub/Makefile.in m4/somedefs.m4
$sleep
touch fragment.inc
$sleep
$ACLOCAL -I m4
AUTOMAKE_after_aclocal
# Only ./Makefile.in should change.
is_newest Makefile.in fragment.inc
is_newest fragment.inc aclocal.m4
is_newest fragment.inc sub/Makefile.in
grep README Makefile.in && exit 1
$sleep
: > README
$sleep
$AUTOMAKE --no-force
# Even if no dependency change, the content changed.
is_newest Makefile.in README
is_newest README sub/Makefile.in
grep README Makefile.in
: > sub/Makefile.in
$sleep
touch foo
$sleep
$ACLOCAL -I m4
$AUTOMAKE --no-force
# Only sub/Makefile.in should change.
is_newest foo aclocal.m4
is_newest foo Makefile.in
is_newest sub/Makefile.in foo
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