Re: Autoconf 2.69 update

On 11/20/2013 10:28 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
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> On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 3:58 PM, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com
> <mailto:andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>> wrote:
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>
> On 2013-11-20 09:53:53 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> > As a rule, you're not supposed to bother including the configure
> output
> > script in a submitted diff anyway. Certainly any committer
> worth his
> > commit bit is going to ignore it and redo autoconf for himself.
>
> The committer maybe, but it's a PITA for reviewers on machines without
> the matching autoconf version around. Which at least currently
> frequently isn't packaged anymore...
>
>
> That's going to be a PITA whichever way you go, though, because there
> is not one standard about which autoconf version distros have. It's
> certainly not all that have 2.69. I frequently do my builds on Ubuntu
> 12.04 for example, which has 2.15, 2.59, 2.64 and 2.68 (don't ask me
> how they ended up with that combination).
>
> The point is - regardless of which version you chose, reviewers and
> committers are going to have to deal with a local installation in many
> cases anyway. So we might be better off just documenting that in a
> more clear way.
>
>

And it only matters if you're reviewing things that touch the configure
setup. That's a tiny minority of patches.

cheers

andrew