Re: Autoconf version discrepancies

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Autoconf version discrepancies
Date: 2000-10-08 19:51:37
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.21.0010082137230.13003-100000@peter.localdomain
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The Hermit Hacker writes:

> Okay, autoconf on hub.org is based on what is in ports ... the only
> "custom patches" are that which are in /usr/ports/devel/autoconf/patches,
> and I just went through them and there doesn't look like anything *odd* in
> there ... can you look at those patches and tell me which one is screwing
> things up for you, that I'm not seeing? :(

The patches ad, ae, and af will cause configure to fail on machines
without mktemp. It's not like things get "screwed up" for me, but the
point of Autoconf is portability to *all* machines, so FreeBSD-specific
changes/optimizations(?) seem misplaced.

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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net http://yi.org/peter-e/

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