Re: renaming configure.in to configure.ac

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: renaming configure.in to configure.ac
Date: 2020-07-16 16:17:15
Message-ID: 3361251.1594916235@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
> I think it'd be a good plan to adopt the beta on master.

> We already have parts of it backpacked, there have been things we couldn't easily do because of bugs in 2.69. There aren't that many changes to configure it total, and particularly not in the back branches. So I think it'd be ok overhead wise.

Yeah. Because we'd want to rip out those hacks, it's not quite as simple
as "regenerate configure with this other autoconf version"; somebody will
have to do some preliminary investigation and produce a patch for the
autoconf input files. Peter, were you intending to do that?

regards, tom lane

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