| 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: | "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Autotools update |
| Date: | 2005-07-02 18:56:27 |
| Message-ID: | 200507021856.j62IuRM28678@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> > 'k, just checked, and we have the FreeBSD one installed, and always
> > have used in the in the past ... I can install the gnu-* one if you
> > think it will make a difference though, but I don't believe we've had
> > any problem reports on any of our past releases ... ?
>
> I think it is the general understanding that we use GNU Autoconf, not
> FreeBSD Autoconf, so the former is the one that should get used. Also,
> when the next person who is not using FreeBSD checks in a configure
> update, we get useless diffs and divergences that we could happily do
> without.
Does the FreeBSD one actually produce different output? I don't
remember seeing any of that and I am not running FreeBSD.
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