From: Michal Nowak <mnowak@isc.org>
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2021 12:47:45 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: Add release note for GL #2504
X-Git-Tag: v9.17.12~38^2~3^2~2
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=566b8ab85e592fdee5b4d4279d6afc2f7debdaf9;p=thirdparty%2Fbind9.git

Add release note for GL #2504
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diff --git a/doc/notes/notes-current.rst b/doc/notes/notes-current.rst
index a45b05ac289..b1a549f8691 100644
--- a/doc/notes/notes-current.rst
+++ b/doc/notes/notes-current.rst
@@ -88,3 +88,9 @@ Bug Fixes
   ``isc_mem_put()``, which resulted in the returned memory being put on
   the wrong free list and prevented ``named`` from starting up. This has
   been fixed. [GL #2460]
+
+- ``libtool`` was inadvertently introduced as a build-time requirement
+  when the build system was revamped in BIND 9.17.2. This unnecessarily
+  prevented hosts without that tool from building BIND 9 from source
+  tarballs. A standalone ``libtool`` script no longer needs to be
+  present in ``PATH`` to build BIND 9 from a source tarball. [GL #2504]