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3562e384
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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) 2011-2017 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/>.
# Files specified by AC_REQUIRE_AUX_FILE must exist, and if a Makefile
# is present in the build-aux directory, they correctly get automatically
# distributed.
# Related to automake bug#9651.
am_create_testdir=empty
. test-init.sh
cat > configure.ac <<END
AC_INIT([$me], [1.0])
AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([sub])
AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
AC_REQUIRE_AUX_FILE([zardoz])
AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile sub/Makefile])
AC_OUTPUT
END
cat > Makefile.am <<'END'
SUBDIRS = sub
test: distdir
ls -l $(distdir) $(distdir)/* ;: For debugging.
test -f $(distdir)/sub/zardoz
.PHONY: test
check-local: test
END
mkdir sub
: > sub/Makefile.am
echo dummy > sub/zardoz
$ACLOCAL
$AUTOCONF
$AUTOMAKE -a
test -f sub/install-sh
# Should work also without '--add-missing'.
$AUTOMAKE
./configure
$MAKE test
$MAKE distcheck
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