[issue40216] Support --runstatedir in configure

[STINNER Victor]

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 specific autoconf version, or a minimum version.

I close the issue. Reopen it or open a new issue if you would like to 
experiment a different approach.

Fedora always regenerates the configure script from configure.ac. Maybe other 
Linux distributions do something similar.

The configure script is tracked by Git since it's more convenient for core 
developers. It's uncommon to update configure.ac, and it avoids a dependency on 
autoconf to quickly hack CPython.

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resolution:  -> wont fix
stage: patch review -> resolved
status: open -> closed

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[issue40216] Support --runstatedir in configure

[Benjamin Peterson]

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 time someone with an older autoconf regenerates 
it.

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[issue40216] Support --runstatedir in configure

[Batuhan Taskaya]

Change by Batuhan Taskaya :


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pull_requests: +18771
stage:  -> patch review
pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/19411

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[issue40216] Support --runstatedir in configure

[Batuhan Taskaya]

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outdated, it requires to be regenerated.

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severity: normal
status: open
title: Support --runstatedir in configure
versions: Python 3.9

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