Am Freitag, 16. November 2007 schrieb Tom Lane: > [ digs for a moment... ] According to my notes we are using autoconf > 2.53 for versions 7.3-8.0 and 2.59 for the later branches. So 2.13 > is already out of the picture. It might be that 2.53 to 2.59 to 2.61 > is not all that big a jump in reality, but I've got to say that it > scares me when I read commit-log entries that report ten thousand lines > worth of diffs in a 20K-line script ...
Yeah, I think it's a bit insane. Keeping a few Autoconf versions around isn't hard at all. We have been doing it for years. (Hint: ./configure; make; make install) -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster