Re: renaming configure.in to configure.ac

Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> On 2020-07-24 15:23, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Sounds good. Do we want to try Noah's idea of temporarily committing
>> the remaining changes, to see if the buildfarm is happy?

> I think to get value out of this you'd have to compare the config.status
> output files (mainly pg_config.h and Makefile.global) before and after.
> Otherwise you're just testing that the shell can parse the script.
> Perhaps some manual tests on, say, AIX and HP-UX using the native shell
> would be of some value.

I already did that on assorted boxes, using the patches you previously
posted [1]. Do you think there's value in re-doing it manually,
rather than just having at it with the buildfarm?

(I did not try to test whether the configure script itself could be
regenerated on an ancient platform; I doubt we care.)

regards, tom lane

[1] https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/30379.1595117752%40sss.pgh.pa.us