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