Re: Autoconf 2.69 update

On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 3:58 PM, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>wrote:

>
> 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.

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