New submission from Antonio Cavallo a.cava...@cavallinux.eu:
Hi,
I've seen the code change in /python/trunk/configure.in (rev. 74072):
it enforces a specific autoconfig version (2.61) in order to build
python.
Unfortunately OpenSuSE 11.1 (mainstream at time of writing) has an
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Antoine Pitrou pit...@free.fr added the comment:
Does the check trigger when building Python, or only when rebuilding the
configure script itself? I think we ship a prebuilt configure script
precisely so that people don't have to care about autoconf versions and
the like.
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Antonio Cavallo a.cava...@cavallinux.eu added the comment:
Yes the rebuild does an autoreconf step.
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http://bugs.python.org/issue6585
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R. David Murray rdmur...@bitdance.com added the comment:
My understanding is that the reason that this particular version of
autoconf is required is that newer versions introduce mixed line endings
into the generated file, which causes problems with storing it in svn.
The introduction of the
