Re: Autotools update

On Sat, 2 Jul 2005, Andrew Dunstan wrote:

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> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
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>> On Sat, 2 Jul 2005, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
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>>> Bruce Momjian wrote:
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>>>> Does the FreeBSD one actually produce different output?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> If it did not, why would they bother making a separate package called
>>> "gnu-autoconf" with the note "This port is specifically designed for
>>> developers that want to create cross-platform software distributions on
>>> FreeBSD."?
>> 
>> 
>> If it did produce different output, why haven't we noticed it prior to 
>> this?  Has there actually *been* a problem that nobody has reported?
>> 
>> 
> Is autoconf actually run as part of any of our packaging scripts? My 
> impression was that developers ran it and the committed the results (e.g. a 
> configure script), unlike, say, bison where the scripts for tarballs have to 
> call it. But then, of course I hardly know :-)

Every time I do a release, the last step is to update teh version numbver 
in configure.in and run autoconf on it, and I do that using the version of 
autoconf that is on the development server itself (ie. the FreeBSD one)

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