Hi Thomas,
> I recently had occastion to use --enable-maintainer-mode after the
> change to autoconf 2.69 / automake 1.15.1.
>
> This led to two changes in libgfortran/configure. First, an option
> "runstatedir" was removed (whatever this does, or is). Second, the
> definition of a macro LARGE_OFF_T was changed.
>
> I am a bit concrend about these changes. Using the same tools
> should lead to the same results, right? And what should I do
> if I wanted to actually commit a patch which incudes wanted
> changes to libgfortran/configure ?
I haven't looked for the LARGE_OFF_T issue, but runstatedir isn't in
vanilla autoconf 2.69, but was added sometime later. Obviously the
configure etc. files were generated with some modified version of
autoconf 2.69.
In a similar case (libphobos), I've simply regenerated all files with
unmodifed self-built versions of autoconf 2.69 and automake 1.15.1. I
suspect some Linux distibutions see fit to ship those
between-2.69-and-2.70 versions without any indication what they're
doing...
Rainer
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Rainer Orth, Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University
