[python-committers] autoconf 2.70

[Brett Cannon]

On Fri, 22 Jul 2016 at 06:02 Xavier de Gaye <xdegaye at gmail.com> wrote:

> It seems that the configure file on the default branch has been generated
> with
> autoconf 2.70. Autoconf 2.70 has not yet been released [1].  The
> differences
> between the generated configure files with 2.69 and 2.70 are a few lines
> [3]
> added by 2.70 with 'runstatedir' in them.  The last old discussion on the
> usage of different autoconf versions [2] does not really answer the
> following
> question:
>
> I am using 2.69, should a commit that changes configure.ac respects the
> existing 'runstatedir' lines added by a previous commit or uses directly
> the
> configure file generated by 2.69 ?
>

If autoconf 2.70 is not released yet then it's fine to regenerate configure
w/ 2.69.

-Brett


>
> Xavier
>
> [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.autoconf.general/16193
> [2] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.devel/135327
> [3] diff -r fe168c2b5e95 configure
> --- a/configure Wed Jul 06 23:58:16 2016 -0700
> +++ b/configure Fri Jul 22 14:49:31 2016 +0200
> @@ -777,7 +777,6 @@
>   docdir
>   oldincludedir
>   includedir
> -runstatedir
>   localstatedir
>   sharedstatedir
>   sysconfdir
> @@ -888,7 +887,6 @@
>   sysconfdir='${prefix}/etc'
>   sharedstatedir='${prefix}/com'
>   localstatedir='${prefix}/var'
> -runstatedir='${localstatedir}/run'
>   includedir='${prefix}/include'
>   oldincludedir='/usr/include'
>   docdir='${datarootdir}/doc/${PACKAGE_TARNAME}'
> @@ -1141,15 +1139,6 @@
>     | -silent | --silent | --silen | --sile | --sil)
>       silent=yes ;;
>
> -  -runstatedir | --runstatedir | --runstatedi | --runstated \
> -  | --runstate | --runstat | --runsta | --runst | --runs \
> -  | --run | --ru | --r)
> -    ac_prev=runstatedir ;;
> -  -runstatedir=* | --runstatedir=* | --runstatedi=* | --runstated=* \
> -  | --runstate=* | --runstat=* | --runsta=* | --runst=* | --runs=* \
> -  | --run=* | --ru=* | --r=*)
> -    runstatedir=$ac_optarg ;;
> -
>     -sbindir | --sbindir | --sbindi | --sbind | --sbin | --sbi | --sb)
>       ac_prev=sbindir ;;
>     -sbindir=* | --sbindir=* | --sbindi=* | --sbind=* | --sbin=* \
> @@ -1287,7 +1276,7 @@
>   for ac_var in exec_prefix prefix bindir sbindir libexecdir datarootdir \
>                 datadir sysconfdir sharedstatedir localstatedir includedir
> \
>                 oldincludedir docdir infodir htmldir dvidir pdfdir psdir \
> -               libdir localedir mandir runstatedir
> +               libdir localedir mandir
>   do
>     eval ac_val=\$$ac_var
>     # Remove trailing slashes.
> @@ -1440,7 +1429,6 @@
>     --sysconfdir=DIR        read-only single-machine data [PREFIX/etc]
>     --sharedstatedir=DIR    modifiable architecture-independent data
> [PREFIX/com]
>     --localstatedir=DIR     modifiable single-machine data [PREFIX/var]
> -  --runstatedir=DIR       modifiable per-process data [LOCALSTATEDIR/run]
>     --libdir=DIR            object code libraries [EPREFIX/lib]
>     --includedir=DIR        C header files [PREFIX/include]
>     --oldincludedir=DIR     C header files for non-gcc [/usr/include]
>
>
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