[issue40216] Support --runstatedir in configure

STINNER Victor added the comment: When a core developer updates configure.ac, they use their local version of autoconf. It may or may not generate --runstatedir. It doesn't seem common to co-install multiple versions of autoconf, and so we cannot require all core developers to have one

[issue40216] Support --runstatedir in configure

Benjamin Peterson added the comment: Upstream autoconf has not had a release in many years. Ubuntu packages a unreleased upstream version that adds runstatedir. Absent a more rigorous process for the regeneration of configure, this change is not useful; it will just get overwritten the next

[issue40216] Support --runstatedir in configure

Change by Batuhan Taskaya : -- keywords: +patch pull_requests: +18771 stage: -> patch review pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/19411 ___ Python tracker ___

[issue40216] Support --runstatedir in configure

New submission from Batuhan Taskaya : AC allows to set runstatedir but looks like python's configure is a bit outdated, it requires to be regenerated. -- components: Build messages: 365909 nosy: BTaskaya priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Support --runstatedir in