Re: wrap alpha4 tomorrow ~9am Eastern (was: Alpha4 release blockers)

On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Going once, going twice...
>
> I'll go ahead and do this, barring objections or some other volunteer.

developer.postgresql.org apparently hates me. After waiting an
insanely long time to copy over the exported tarball to that machine,
I tried to follow the instructions at
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Alpha_release_process but of course it
didn't work:

$ src/tools/version_stamp.pl alpha4
Stamped these files with version number 9.1alpha4:
configure.in
doc/bug.template
src/include/pg_config.h.win32
src/interfaces/libpq/libpq.rc.in
src/port/win32ver.rc
Don't forget to run autoconf 2.63 before committing.
$ autoconf --version
autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.62
Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv2+: GNU GPL version 2 or later
<http://gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by David J. MacKenzie and Akim Demaille.
$ autoconf
configure.in:22: error: Autoconf version 2.63 is required.
Untested combinations of 'autoconf' and PostgreSQL versions are not
recommended. You can remove the check from 'configure.in' but it is then
your responsibility whether the result works or not.
configure.in:22: the top level
autom4te-2.62: /usr/local/bin/gm4 failed with exit status: 1

As Magnus pointed out to me on IM, there must be a usable version of
autoconf on this machine somewhere if it's doing the nightly snapshot
builds, but beats me where it is. Help?

--
Robert Haas
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