Re: autoconf version for back branches?

Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> I see that older back branches are still using version 2.53 of
> autoconf, rather than the 2.59 branch we have updated to for 8.1 and
> beyond. Does that mean I need to install version 2.53 if I want to
> update the config on those branches?

Yes.

> If so, fixing the plpython
> problem I reported recently seems like too much work.

mkdir tmp
cd tmp
wget ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-2.53.tar.bz2
tar xjf autoconf-2.53.tar.bz2
cd autoconf-2.53
./configure --prefix=$(cd .. && pwd)/install
make install

cd .../pgsql
.../tmp/install/bin/autoconf

Not that much work. :)

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Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/