On Wed, 19 Dec 2007, KaiGai Kohei wrote:
It seems to me this check enforces us to use autoconf 2.59, not the latest one. Is there any reason for this change?
2.59 is the stable version of autoconf PostgreSQL 8.3 is built against, and the check keeps anyone from accidentally running it against other versions. Since as you've noticed some popular OSes have switched to 2.61, that test was put in there to keep people building a new configure to give out to everyone from accidentally building against the wrong version. The brutally long thread at http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-11/msg00706.php gives more background on this topic.
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