Re: [HACKERS] Autotools update

2005-07-03 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Sat, Jul 02, 2005 at 09:46:19PM +0200 I heard the voice of Peter Eisentraut, and lo! it spake thus: > Bruce Momjian wrote: > > 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 p

Re: [HACKERS] Autotools update

2005-07-02 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Marc G. Fournier wrote: > 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? Note that we have never used Autoconf 2.59 before, so nobody could have ever noticed and reported anything. This FreeBSD vs. G

Re: [HACKERS] Autotools update

2005-07-02 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Bruce Momjian wrote: Peter Eisentraut wrote: Does the FreeBSD one actually produce different output? I don't remember seeing any of that and I am not running FreeBSD. On my 5.4 system autoconf259 and gnu-autoconf both fetch the *same* src file (autoconf-2.59.tar.bz2 with md5sum 1ee40f7a676b

Re: [HACKERS] Autotools update

2005-07-02 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Sat, 2 Jul 2005, Andrew Dunstan wrote: Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Sat, 2 Jul 2005, Peter Eisentraut wrote: Bruce Momjian wrote: 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

Re: [HACKERS] Autotools update

2005-07-02 Thread Tom Lane
Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Marc G. Fournier wrote: >> 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? I don't th

Re: [HACKERS] Autotools update

2005-07-02 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Sat, 2 Jul 2005, Peter Eisentraut wrote: Bruce Momjian wrote: 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 dev

Re: [HACKERS] Autotools update

2005-07-02 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Sat, 2 Jul 2005, Peter Eisentraut wrote: Bruce Momjian wrote: 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 cr

Re: [HACKERS] Autotools update

2005-07-02 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Bruce Momjian wrote: > 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 FreeB

Re: [HACKERS] Autotools update

2005-07-02 Thread Bruce Momjian
Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > 'k, just checked, and we have the FreeBSD one installed, and always > > have used in the in the past ... I can install the gnu-* one if you > > think it will make a difference though, but I don't believe we've had > > any problem reports on any

Re: [HACKERS] Autotools update

2005-07-02 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Marc G. Fournier wrote: > 'k, just checked, and we have the FreeBSD one installed, and always > have used in the in the past ... I can install the gnu-* one if you > think it will make a difference though, but I don't believe we've had > any problem reports on any of our past releases ... ? I thin

Re: [HACKERS] Autotools update

2005-07-02 Thread Marc G. Fournier
'k, just checked, and we have the FreeBSD one installed, and always have used in the in the past ... I can install the gnu-* one if you think it will make a difference though, but I don't believe we've had any problem reports on any of our past releases ... ? On Sat, 2 Jul 2005, Peter Eisen

Re: [HACKERS] Autotools update

2005-07-02 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Marc G. Fournier wrote: > Pick your version: > > # ls -lt /usr/local/bin/autoconf* > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 7672 Aug 22 2004 > /usr/local/bin/autoconf259 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 6194 Aug 22 > 2004 /usr/local/bin/autoconf253 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 5007 Jul > 27 2003 /usr/local/bin/auto

Re: [HACKERS] Autotools update

2005-07-01 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, Peter Eisentraut wrote: Tom Lane wrote: Are the correct tools also installed on cvs.postgresql.org (ie, will the right things happen when Marc tries to build a tarball)? I don't see any autoconf installed there, so the wrong thing would happen either way. :-) But gnu-auto

Re: [HACKERS] Autotools update

2005-07-01 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Tom Lane wrote: > Are the correct tools also installed on cvs.postgresql.org (ie, will > the right things happen when Marc tries to build a tarball)? I don't see any autoconf installed there, so the wrong thing would happen either way. :-) But gnu-autoconf-2.59 is in the FreeBSD ports, if it's

Re: [HACKERS] Autotools update

2005-07-01 Thread Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As previously announced I have committed the update to Autoconf 2.59 as > well as updates of mkinstalldirs, install-sh, as well as config.guess > and config.sub. Are the correct tools also installed on cvs.postgresql.org (ie, will the right things h

[HACKERS] Autotools update

2005-07-01 Thread Peter Eisentraut
As previously announced I have committed the update to Autoconf 2.59 as well as updates of mkinstalldirs, install-sh, as well as config.guess and config.sub. This shouldn't have any immediate functional impact, except that you can now turn off the autom4te.cache directory (using ~/.autom4te.cf