Re: Autoconf 2.50 is out (was Re: Re: OpenUnix 8 Patch)

* Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> [010730 18:34]:
> I wrote:
> > If autoconf releases were happening on a regular basis, we could get
> > away with just tracking the released version of autoconf for these
> > files. However, they aren't and we can't.
>
> Just moments after writing that, I was startled to read on another
> mailing list that the long-mythical Autoconf 2.50 is released!
>
> We should probably consider updating from autoconf 2.13 as our project
> standard to 2.50. However, I'd recommend waiting till Peter E. returns
> from his vacation to see what his opinion about it is. IIRC, he's been
> following that project, which I have not been.
I also see LOTS of complaints about compat issues, which is why I just
pulled the 2 files from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/config when I
generated that patch. Looks like they updated them again today:

$ ftp ftp.gnu.org
Connected to gnuftp.gnu.org.
220 ProFTPD 1.2.0pre10 Server (ProFTPD) [gnuftp.gnu.org]
331 Anonymous login ok, send your complete e-mail address as password.
230-If you have any problems with the GNU software or its downloading,
please
refer your questions to <gnu(at)gnu(dot)org>.

There are several mirrors of this archive, a complete list can be
found on
http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html. Please use one of the mirrors if
possible.

Archives of the GNU mailing lists can be found in
ftp://ftp-mailing-list-archives.gnu.org/.

Please note that the directory structure on ftp.gnu.org was
redisorganzied
fairly recently, such that there is a directory for each program.
One side
effect of this is that if you cd into the gnu directory, and do
> ls emacs*
you will get a list of all the files in the emacs directory, but it
will not
be obvious from the ls output that you have to `cd emacs' before you
can
download those files.

Note further the non-GNU programs that were formerly in gnu/ have
moved to
gnu/non-gnu/. Most of them were just pointers in the format
program.README.
If you are looking for such a file, be sure to check gnu/non-gnu/.
230 Anonymous access granted, restrictions apply.
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
ftp> cd pub/gnu/config
250 CWD command successful.
ftp> pwd
257 "/gnu/config" is current directory.
ftp> dir
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for file list.
-rw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 38214 Jul 30 14:00 config.guess
-rw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 27872 Jul 30 14:00 config.sub
226-Transfer complete.
226 Quotas off
ftp>

Larry
>
> regards, tom lane

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