Re: Garbage contents after running autoconf 2.69 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Michael Paquier
Subject Re: Garbage contents after running autoconf 2.69
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Msg-id 20181230062543.GF608@paquier.xyz
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In response to Re: Garbage contents after running autoconf 2.69  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Sat, Dec 29, 2018 at 10:36:02AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Project practice is to use plain-vanilla autoconf 2.69.  Vendor
> packages tend to contain various "improvements" that will cause you
> to get different results than other committers do.  Fortunately
> autoconf is pretty trivial to install: grab from the GNU archive,
> configure, make, make install should do it.

Ah, thanks.  I did not know that bit.

> Hmm, I thought this was documented somewhere, but I'm not awake
> enough to remember where.

I could not find any reference on the wiki or in the code, but I may
have missed a reference of course.  Anyway, I got it sorted out now.
--
Michael

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