Re: renaming configure.in to configure.ac

On 2020-07-24 15:23, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
>> On 2020-07-17 10:46, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>>> v1-0001-Rename-configure.in-to-configure.ac.patch
>
>> I have committed that, and I have sent feedback to the Autoconf
>> developers about our concerns about the slowness of some of the new tests.

The slow C++ feature test has been fixed in Autoconf git.

> Sounds good. Do we want to try Noah's idea of temporarily committing
> the remaining changes, to see if the buildfarm is happy?

I think to get value out of this you'd have to compare the config.status
output files (mainly pg_config.h and Makefile.global) before and after.
Otherwise you're just testing that the shell can parse the script.
Perhaps some manual tests on, say, AIX and HP-UX using the native shell
would be of some value.

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