On Sun, Jan 23, 2022, at 17:29, Tom Lane wrote: >While chasing something else, I was surprised to learn that the >Autoconf project has started to make releases again. There are >2.70 (2020-12-08) and 2.71 (2021-01-28) versions available at >https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/ > >Right now, I'm not sure we care; there seems to be more >enthusiasm for switching to meson. But if that idea falls >through, we should update to a newer autoconf release.
Speaking of autoconf, I don't have much experience in this area, but I noted there is an AC_CACHE_SAVE feature to speed up rerunning ./configure, necessary when it stops with an error due to some missing dependency. Is there a good reason why AC_CACHE_SAVE is not used? /Joel
