On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 09:45:54AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentr...@2ndquadrant.com> writes: > > It was mentioned elsewhere in passing that a new Autoconf release might > > be coming. That one will warn about the old naming "configure.in" and > > request "configure.ac". So we might want to rename that sometime. > > Before we get into the specifics, I suggest that all interested parties > > check whether buildfarm scripts, packaging scripts, etc. need to be > > adjusted for the newer name. > > Along the same line, I read at [1] > > Because it has been such a long time, and because some of the changes > potentially break existing Autoconf scripts, we are conducting a > public beta test before the final release of version 2.70. Please > test this beta with your autoconf scripts, and report any problems you > find to the Savannah bug tracker: > > Maybe we should do some pro-active testing, rather than just waiting for > 2.70 to get dropped on us? God knows how long it will be until 2.71.
Sounds good. A cheap option would be to regenerate with 2.70, push that on a Friday night to see what the buildfarm thinks, and revert it on Sunday night.
