From: | Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz> |
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To: | Christoph Berg <myon(at)debian(dot)org>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Remove distprep |
Date: | 2023-08-21 07:24:47 |
Message-ID: | ZOMRPyabF/2ahm4y@paquier.xyz |
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On Fri, Aug 18, 2023 at 10:22:47AM +0200, Christoph Berg wrote:
> Yes, mostly. Since autoconf had not seen a new release for so long,
> everyone started to patch it, and one of the things that Debian and
> others added was --runstatedir=DIR. The toolchain is also using it,
> it's part of the default set of options used by dh_auto_configure.
>
> In parallel, the standard debhelper toolchain also started to run
> autoreconf by default, so instead of telling dh_auto_configure to omit
> --runstatedir, it was really easier to patch configure.ac to remove
> the autoconf 2.69 check.
Ah, I didn't know this part of the story. Thanks for the insights.
> Two of the other patches are touching configure(.ac) anyway to tweak
> compiler flags (reproducibility, aarch64 tweaks).
Is reproducibility something you've brought to a separate thread?
FWIW, I'd be interested in improving this area for the in-core code,
if need be. (Not material for this thread, of course).
--
Michael
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