Re: Compiling on Haiku with iODBC

On Sun, Jun 28, 2015 at 10:52 PM, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi> wrote:
> On 06/27/2015 02:04 PM, Mark Hellegers wrote:
>>>
>>> The config.guess and config.sub files, nor the configure script, are
>>> not
>>> actually in the git repository. They get added when you run "autoconf
>>> -i".
>>>
>>> I'm not sure what version of autoconf we use when building the
>>> tarballs,
>>> but I think those changes you need are not in the latest released
>>> version, 2.69, yet. I don't think we're going to start using anything
>>> more cutting edge than that for the official releases. So I think
>>> you'll
>>> just have to replace those files yourself when you build.
>>
>>
>> I have the source for version 2.63 and that one recognizes Haiku.
>> The files in the config subdirectory from the source of the PostgreSQL
>> ODBC driver contain
>> a copyright of 2003. It looks like they do not get updated when you do
>> a new release.
>
>
> Ah, I see. I was looking at my own copy of autoconf, instead of the one that
> we actually ship with.
>
> Yeah, it would make sense to upgrade to the latest version of autoconf in
> the build system used to prepare the official tarballs. I have no part in
> that, unfortunately, so I can't help with that. Inoue-san, Saito-san?

Note to Saito-san and Inoue-san: could you explain how a release is
done, please? Adding some notes in the docs of the code tree would be
useful as well, and I don't mind writing a patch once the release flow
is clearly defined.
--
Michael