| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
| Cc: | PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Autoconf version discrepancies |
| Date: | 2000-10-03 14:46:24 |
| Message-ID: | 200010031446.KAA20010@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> Bruce Momjian writes:
>
> > I always telnet into hub to run autoconf. I have a little script in my
> > ~momjian/bin directory called pgautoconf that does that, and cvs commits
> > the changes.
>
> That's exactly the problem, the version on hub.org is custom-patched for
> FreeBSD and has significant loser potential on other platforms.
>
> And really, there's no need to do that either, if you install the original
> GNU tarball locally.
Good point. I think autoconf is run as part of the tarball creation, so
we had better have the right version on hub. Personally, I prefer to
use a version on hub because it is the official one for PostgreSQL.
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