On 2018-04-14 17:10:21 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> writes: > > On April 14, 2018 1:56:08 PM PDT, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > >> The project policy is to use exactly the GNU distribution of autoconf. > > > Fwiw, I see one copyright year related diff with unmodified upstream > > autoconf. > > Really? Where did you get autoconf from? My archived copy of > autoconf-2.69.tar.gz, fetched 2013-11-15, has internal file > dates of (mostly) 2012-04-24. That matches the file dates at > https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/ > so I've not actually pulled down fresh bits to compare, but ...
The v2.69 git tag. So I guess that's set somewhere in the tarball building. Hrmpf. The half unmaintainedness of autoconf (no release in five years counts as that imo), sure makes it look like a good idea to move on to cmake or such at some point... Greetings, Andres Freund
