Hi
On 2026-07-20 19:24, Jakub Zelenka wrote:
I don't exactly understand why that Autoconf section does not mention
that
it is not available on distro levels for RHEL 8 and 9 so it makes
things
difficult for packagers like Remi who explicitly asked to delay it:
The proposal clearly specifies the minimum versions for various distros.
https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/21159#issuecomment-4287762254 ?
This is
quite strange because you even linked Tim's question and considering
that
The question has been left unanswered. Since the only reply was a vague
“I prefer to wait”, I proceeded with writing the RFC.
the Remi's preference is to delay, it obviously means that there are
likely
some plans to package 8.6 for those distros and this change will just
make
it harder. I don't see reason to rush it to 8.6 and make life harder
for
packagers so I voted no.
I consider being able to properly rely on C11 functionality to be worth
it. Generally speaking, compilers on operating systems that don’t have
autoconf 2.71 likely also don’t (fully) support C11, the lack of a
modern autoconf is really just a canary there.
Best regards
Tim Düsterhus
