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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) 2002-2017 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.
#
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# 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.
#
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# along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
# Check to make sure that when distdir is invoked in a VPATH
# configuration and has to distribute directory X, it actually merge
# $(srcdir)/X and ./X, with the files from the later overriding the
# files from the former.
. test-init.sh
echo AC_OUTPUT >> configure.ac
cat > Makefile.am << 'END'
EXTRA_DIST=foo/bar baz
check: distdir
test -f $(distdir)/foo/bar/baz
test -f $(distdir)/foo/bar/baz2
test -f $(distdir)/baz/foo
test -f $(distdir)/baz/foo2
grep source $(distdir)/foo/bar/baz
grep build $(distdir)/foo/bar/baz2
grep source $(distdir)/baz/foo
grep build $(distdir)/baz/foo2
END
# Create some files in $(srcdir)
mkdir foo
mkdir foo/bar
echo source > foo/bar/baz
echo source > foo/bar/baz2
mkdir baz
echo source > baz/foo
echo source > baz/foo2
$ACLOCAL
$AUTOMAKE
$AUTOCONF
mkdir build
cd build
../configure
# Create some files in $(builddir) that will override part of the
# files if $(srcdir) when the distribution is made.
mkdir foo
mkdir foo/bar
echo build > foo/bar/baz2
mkdir baz
echo build > baz/foo2
$MAKE check
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