Thread: Autoconf 2.50 is out (was Re: [PATCHES] Re: OpenUnix 8 Patch)
I wrote:
> If autoconf releases were happening on a regular basis, we could get
> away with just tracking the released version of autoconf for these
> files. However, they aren't and we can't.
Just moments after writing that, I was startled to read on another
mailing list that the long-mythical Autoconf 2.50 is released!
We should probably consider updating from autoconf 2.13 as our project
standard to 2.50. However, I'd recommend waiting till Peter E. returns
from his vacation to see what his opinion about it is. IIRC, he's been
following that project, which I have not been.
regards, tom lane
* Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> [010730 18:34]: > I wrote: > > If autoconf releases were happening on a regular basis, we could get > > away with just tracking the released version of autoconf for these > > files. However, they aren't and we can't. > > Just moments after writing that, I was startled to read on another > mailing list that the long-mythical Autoconf 2.50 is released! > > We should probably consider updating from autoconf 2.13 as our project > standard to 2.50. However, I'd recommend waiting till Peter E. returns > from his vacation to see what his opinion about it is. IIRC, he's been > following that project, which I have not been. I also see LOTS of complaints about compat issues, which is why I just pulled the 2 files from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/config when I generated that patch. Looks like they updated them again today: $ ftp ftp.gnu.org Connected to gnuftp.gnu.org. 220 ProFTPD 1.2.0pre10 Server (ProFTPD) [gnuftp.gnu.org] 331 Anonymous login ok, send your complete e-mail address as password. 230-If you have any problems with the GNU software or its downloading, please refer your questions to <gnu@gnu.org>. There are several mirrors of this archive, a complete list can be found on http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html. Please use one of the mirrors if possible. Archives of the GNU mailing lists can be found in ftp://ftp-mailing-list-archives.gnu.org/. Please note that the directory structure on ftp.gnu.org was redisorganzied fairly recently, such that there is a directory for each program. One side effect of this is that if you cd into the gnu directory, and do > ls emacs* you will get a list of all the files in the emacs directory, but it will not be obvious from the ls output that you have to `cd emacs' before you can download those files. Note further the non-GNU programs that were formerly in gnu/ have moved to gnu/non-gnu/. Most of them were just pointers in the format program.README. If you are looking for such a file, be sure to check gnu/non-gnu/. 230 Anonymous access granted, restrictions apply. Remote system type is UNIX. Using binary mode to transfer files. ftp> cd pub/gnu/config 250 CWD command successful. ftp> pwd 257 "/gnu/config" is current directory. ftp> dir 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for file list. -rw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 38214 Jul 30 14:00 config.guess -rw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 27872 Jul 30 14:00 config.sub 226-Transfer complete. 226 Quotas off ftp> Larry > > regards, tom lane -- Larry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler Phone: +1 972-414-9812 E-Mail: ler@lerctr.org US Mail: 1905 Steamboat Springs Drive, Garland, TX 75044-6749
Tom Lane writes: > Just moments after writing that, I was startled to read on another > mailing list that the long-mythical Autoconf 2.50 is released! Last I checked 2.51 was also released. AC 2.50 had some quality issues in my mind which were probably fixed by now. If we see a need we can update; I suppose it depends on the release schedule. (Note that some non-trivial patches will be needed before 2.5x will work on our configure.in. I have these mostly worked out.) -- Peter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter
Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> Last I checked 2.51 was also released. AC 2.50 had some quality issues in
> my mind which were probably fixed by now. If we see a need we can update;
> I suppose it depends on the release schedule. (Note that some non-trivial
> patches will be needed before 2.5x will work on our configure.in. I have
> these mostly worked out.)
I think it's your call whether to do it now or wait. It'd be nice not
to have the project's version of Autoconf be a moving target, however
--- if the various developers who commit configure changes don't all
have the same Autoconf that's on hub.org, we have problems. If you
think there's likely to be a 2.52 soon, maybe we should wait.
Another thing to ask is what the newer autoconf will buy us. I remember
you mentioning some things that sounded nice, but I forget details.
As far as schedule goes, I'm still thinking 7.2 beta by the end of
August, but that's just MHO.
regards, tom lane
* Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> [010805 14:51]: > Tom Lane writes: > > > Just moments after writing that, I was startled to read on another > > mailing list that the long-mythical Autoconf 2.50 is released! > > Last I checked 2.51 was also released. AC 2.50 had some quality issues in > my mind which were probably fixed by now. If we see a need we can update; > I suppose it depends on the release schedule. (Note that some non-trivial > patches will be needed before 2.5x will work on our configure.in. I have > these mostly worked out.) The patch I submitted was from the FTP site. Can you at least commit those? > > -- > Peter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter -- Larry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler Phone: +1 972-414-9812 E-Mail: ler@lerctr.org US Mail: 1905 Steamboat Springs Drive, Garland, TX 75044-6749