Re: PSA: Autoconf has risen from the dead

From: "Joel Jacobson" <joel(at)compiler(dot)org>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: PSA: Autoconf has risen from the dead
Date: 2022-01-23 18:13:41
Message-ID: 0c60d7ed-431d-4c46-8168-a030b6a46b26@www.fastmail.com
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On Sun, Jan 23, 2022, at 17:29, Tom Lane wrote:
>While chasing something else, I was surprised to learn that the
>Autoconf project has started to make releases again. There are
>2.70 (2020-12-08) and 2.71 (2021-01-28) versions available at
>https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/
>
>Right now, I'm not sure we care; there seems to be more
>enthusiasm for switching to meson. But if that idea falls
>through, we should update to a newer autoconf release.

Speaking of autoconf,

I don't have much experience in this area, but I noted there is
an AC_CACHE_SAVE feature to speed up rerunning ./configure,
necessary when it stops with an error due to some missing dependency.

Is there a good reason why AC_CACHE_SAVE is not used?

/Joel

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