Thread: Move Deprecated configure.in to configure.ac

configure.in was deprecated some years ago. We have a bug at Gentoo [1] to
move it to configure.ac.

I've done so in my git-clone of the postgresql repo, and ran autoupdate
to move away from the deprecated functions as well.

I generated the configure script again, but that didn't change.

make && make check all succeeded without intervention.

[1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=529680

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"Aaron W. Swenson" <titanofold@gentoo.org> writes:
> configure.in was deprecated some years ago. We have a bug at Gentoo [1] to
> move it to configure.ac.

I see no advantage to this.  It'll mess up our git history to do so,
not to mention complicate back-patching.  If we were planning to adopt
additional tools from the autoconf suite then we might have to change
the file suffix, but I have heard no suggestions that we might want to
do that.  In particular, we really do not care what automake thinks.
        regards, tom lane