• Update `security/john' to 1.8.0-jumbo-1 (long overdue)
• Remove no longer needed build-related logic since they moved to GNU autotools' based build
• Disable OPENMP option for the moment; it will be reintroduced with others (e.g. OpenCL) in a separate commit
• Add upstream patch to fix the build on non-x86 architectures [2]
• Do not define _POSIX_SOURCE when compiling wordlist.c: this results in broken JtR binary at least on i386
• Define JOHN_SYSTEMWIDE_EXEC for the future when we start to provide fall-back binaries
• Stop moving john.conf to /etc. We're not doing it for other *.conf files anyway (the include files); JtR is smart enough to locate its configuration files properly when built in system-wide mode [1]
• Install full set of documentation files included with -jumbo
• Remove `xtract' symlink which hasn't been part of JtR for more than a decade; install more useful symlinks (unafs, unique, other un* and *2john) that were added in -jumbo instead
• Previously *.pl, *.rb, and *.py scripts were installed into DATADIR; Alexander wanted to see them along with the documentation, but that goes a bit too far; put them in ${DATADIR}/extra for the time being

PR: 197172 [1]
Obtained from: http://www.openwall.com/lists/john-dev/2014/12/18/21 [2]