Thread: pgsql: Upgrade to Autoconf 2.61: - Change configure.in to use Autoconf

Log Message:
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Upgrade to Autoconf 2.61:
- Change configure.in to use Autoconf 2.61 and update generated files.
- Update build system and documentation to support now directory variables
  offered by Autoconf 2.61.
- Replace usages of PGAC_CHECK_ALIGNOF by AC_CHECK_ALIGNOF, now available
  in Autoconf 2.61.
- Drop our patched version of AC_C_INLINE, as Autoconf now has the change.

Modified Files:
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    pgsql:
        configure (r1.579 -> r1.580)
        (http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/configure?r1=1.579&r2=1.580)
        configure.in (r1.547 -> r1.548)
        (http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/configure.in?r1=1.547&r2=1.548)
    pgsql/config:
        c-compiler.m4 (r1.14 -> r1.15)
        (http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/config/c-compiler.m4?r1=1.14&r2=1.15)
        programs.m4 (r1.21 -> r1.22)
        (http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/config/programs.m4?r1=1.21&r2=1.22)
    pgsql/doc:
        Makefile (r1.29 -> r1.30)
        (http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/doc/Makefile?r1=1.29&r2=1.30)
    pgsql/doc/src/sgml:
        installation.sgml (r1.301 -> r1.302)
        (http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml?r1=1.301&r2=1.302)
    pgsql/src:
        Makefile.global.in (r1.240 -> r1.241)
        (http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/Makefile.global.in?r1=1.240&r2=1.241)
    pgsql/src/include:
        pg_config.h.in (r1.127 -> r1.128)
        (http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/include/pg_config.h.in?r1=1.127&r2=1.128)

petere@postgresql.org (Peter Eisentraut) writes:
> - Update build system and documentation to support now directory variables
>   offered by Autoconf 2.61.

Is there anything here that needs to be reflected into pg_config?  Right
offhand I only see htmldir being added, which perhaps isn't important,
but pg_config does report docdir ...

            regards, tom lane

Am Montag, 18. Februar 2008 schrieb Tom Lane:
> petere@postgresql.org (Peter Eisentraut) writes:
> > - Update build system and documentation to support now directory
> > variables offered by Autoconf 2.61.
>
> Is there anything here that needs to be reflected into pg_config?  Right
> offhand I only see htmldir being added, which perhaps isn't important,
> but pg_config does report docdir ...

Good point.  I'll look into it.

--
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/