Re: Automating our version-stamping a bit better

From: "Heikki Linnakangas" <heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: "Andrew Dunstan" <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, <pgsql-core(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>, <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Automating our version-stamping a bit better
Date: 2008-06-09 07:52:46
Message-ID: 484CE14E.8010001@enterprisedb.com
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Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>>
>> I'm tempted to suggest letting the script invoke autoconf, too,
>> but that would require standardizing where to find the correct
>> version of autoconf for each branch; so it might not be such a
>> great idea.
>
> Unfortunately that's true. Maybe we could agree on using an alias for
> the right version of autoconf, but it seems likely to be error prone.

Or we could sidestep the issue by not running autoconf, but
search-replace the version strings in configure directly with the perl
script.

--
Heikki Linnakangas
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com

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