[issue40216] Support --runstatedir in configure

[STINNER Victor]

STINNER Victor <vstinner at python.org> added the comment:

When a core developer updates configure.ac, they use their local version of autoconf. It may or may not generate --runstatedir. It doesn't seem common to co-install multiple versions of autoconf, and so we cannot require all core developers to have one specific autoconf version, or a minimum version.

I close the issue. Reopen it or open a new issue if you would like to experiment a different approach.

Fedora always regenerates the configure script from configure.ac. Maybe other Linux distributions do something similar.

The configure script is tracked by Git since it's more convenient for core developers. It's uncommon to update configure.ac, and it avoids a dependency on autoconf to quickly hack CPython.

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nosy: +vstinner
resolution:  -> wont fix
stage: patch review -> resolved
status: open -> closed

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