Re: Garbage contents after running autoconf 2.69

From: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Garbage contents after running autoconf 2.69
Date: 2018-12-30 06:25:43
Message-ID: 20181230062543.GF608@paquier.xyz
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On Sat, Dec 29, 2018 at 10:36:02AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Project practice is to use plain-vanilla autoconf 2.69. Vendor
> packages tend to contain various "improvements" that will cause you
> to get different results than other committers do. Fortunately
> autoconf is pretty trivial to install: grab from the GNU archive,
> configure, make, make install should do it.

Ah, thanks. I did not know that bit.

> Hmm, I thought this was documented somewhere, but I'm not awake
> enough to remember where.

I could not find any reference on the wiki or in the code, but I may
have missed a reference of course. Anyway, I got it sorted out now.
--
Michael

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