| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
| Cc: | PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: autoconf version for back branches? |
| Date: | 2006-09-03 23:25:12 |
| Message-ID: | 2065.1157325912@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
> I see that older back branches are still using version 2.53 of autoconf,
> rather than the 2.59 branch we have updated to for 8.1 and beyond. Does
> that mean I need to install version 2.53 if I want to update the config
> on those branches?
Yup. We aren't changing back autoconf versions if we can help it ---
too much risk of breakage.
> If so, fixing the plpython problem I reported
> recently seems like too much work.
It's not a big problem if you install 'em into private subdirectories,
eg I have autoconf-2.53 installed with --prefix = /usr/local/autoconf-2.53
and do
PATH=/usr/local/autoconf-2.53/bin:$PATH autoconf
when I need to update back-branch configure scripts.
regards, tom lane
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