[python-committers] autoconf 2.70

[Gregory P. Smith]

I do not think we should require individual developers committing changes
to configure.ac to use a particular version of autoconf when regenerating
configure. That is a burden.

The solution to your problem is to maintain your patches _only_ against
configure.ac and rerun autoconf using whatever version you need yourself.

If a release manager decides they want configure generated with a specific
version of autoconf at release time, they should rerun that specific
version of autoconf and commit the result _for the release_.

otherwise the checked in configure script exists entirely as a convenience.
 configure.ac is always the source of truth.

-gps

On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 11:38 PM Xavier de Gaye <xdegaye at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 11/22/2016 08:16 PM, Ned Deily wrote:
>  > On Nov 22, 2016, at 11:06, Xavier de Gaye <xdegaye at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >> The configure file on the default and 3.6 branches have been generated
>  >> with autoconf 2.70 once again. This is annoying when you have to
>  >> maintain patches to this configure file in order to build on a non
>  >> supported platform.
>  >
>  > I'm sorry about that.  I did promise to rerun with autoconf 2.69 before
> tagging the release so committers didn't have to worry about it but I
> didn't notice my note to do so until after 3.6.0b4 had
> already been tagged.  I'll try to do better for rc1.
>  >
>  > Perhaps another solution to the problem might be to not include the
> autoconf-generated changes in the patches and just always run autoconf
> before doing a build?  That's what we suggest for patches
> submitted to the tracker.
>  >
>  > And this might also be a candidate for handling in our upcoming new
> development workflow, i.e. something like having autoconf automatically be
> run as part of checkins.  If it hasn't already been
> discussed there, it might be worth bringing up on the core-workflow
> mailing list.
>  >
>  > --
>  >   Ned Deily
>  >   nad at python.org -- []
>  >
>
>  From the configure logs since last july, it seems that Benjamin and
> Serhiy are
> the only one using autoconf 2.70:
>
>      changeset 102530:b04560c3ce69 - author Benjamin Peterson
>      changeset 103648:816ae3abd928 - author Serhiy Storchaka
>
> If it is not too difficult to build autoconf 2.69 from source, then the
> solution could be that they switch to autoconf 2.69.
>
> Xavier
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