[Python-Dev] Updating to autoconf 2.5x (original) (raw)

Skip Montanaro skip@pobox.com
Thu, 4 Apr 2002 10:59:41 -0600

"mal" == mal <M.-A.> writes:

mal> Skip Montanaro wrote:
>> 
Martin> If all regular editors of configure.in have autoconf 2.5x
Martin> available, or can install it, I'd propose to bump the AC_PREREQ
Martin> to 2.50.
>> 
>> I believe 2.50 had serious bugs and was superceded rather quickly by the
>> autoconf maintainers.  I would vote to boost to 2.52 or above.

mal> Does the update buy us anything ?

Maybe not. When I was making daily builds of Gtk2 from CVS a few months ago, I needed to install autoconf 2.52. The Gtk folks use features not available in 2.13. Martin thinks there are some bug fixes. The biggest difference I see is that when I make a change to configure.in, rerun autoconf, then want to see what the resulting change to configure is, ediff reports 1355 changes instead of a small handful. If we have everyone on different versions of autoconf, configure script checkins are going to be humongous. I doubt we'll fill up the CVS disk on SF, but it still seems like we should move forward as a group when we do, particularly those folks who edit configure.in most frequently.

I can't comment on glibc versions. I just go with the flow there...

Skip