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Roundup Robot devn...@psf.upfronthosting.co.za added the comment:
New changeset 5432be4d4e1a by Ross Lagerwall in branch 'default':
Issue 7997: Explain how to regenerate configure using Autoconf.
http://hg.python.org/devguide/rev/5432be4d4e1a
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Antoine Pitrou pit...@free.fr added the comment:
Python's configure.in script typically requires a specific version of
autoconf. At the moment, this reads:
version_required(2.61)
This is a bit outdated. Right now we only have:
AC_PREREQ(2.65)
which IIUC means 2.65 or higher.
Do not
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Dave Malcolm dmalc...@redhat.com added the comment:
Nitpick: Various occurrences of 2.6.1 in the above should probably be 2.61.
Good catch - I think my brain or fingers are too used to Python's versioning
scheme, rather than autoconf's.
Here's a revised set of commands, hopefully fixing
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Mark Dickinson dicki...@gmail.com added the comment:
BTW, should the changes to the generated configure be excluded
from such patches, or should they be included? (to what extent do
they contain meaningful information during review?)
Not sure. I think it's fine to leave the configure
New submission from Dave Malcolm dmalc...@redhat.com:
http://www.python.org/dev/faq/ doesn't seem to explain how to regenerate
configure
Here's an attempt at answering that question; I hope the following is
appropriate and factually correct:
How to regenerate the configure script (e.g. to add
Mark Dickinson dicki...@gmail.com added the comment:
This looks good! Is it worth mentioning that autoreconf updates pyconfig.h.in
as well as configure?
There's also an OS X oddity to be aware of, though I'm not sure whether it's
worth mentioning in the FAQ. On OS X 10.6, the system
Eric Smith e...@trueblade.com added the comment:
Isn't it true that after regenerating configure that you need to check it back
in? Or is that so obvious to everyone except me that it's not worth mentioning?
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Dave Malcolm dmalc...@redhat.com added the comment:
Eric Smith:
Isn't it true that after regenerating configure that you need to check
it back in? Or is that so obvious to everyone except me that it's not
worth mentioning?
FWIW the above point wasn't obvious to me; if that's the case, then
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