Re: AC_PROG_EGREP and $EGREP_TRADITIONAL and shell conditional statements

2023-03-31 Thread Paul Eggert
On 2023-03-30 07:24, Zack Weinberg wrote: This configure.ac*is* incorrect, but since we are trying to make 2.73 a smooth upgrade from 2.71 I do think we should keep it working, and the obvious way to do that is to fold the "fallback check for a more limited egrep" into AC_PROG_EGREP. Any

Re: Which Perl versions Autoconf needs [PATCH included]

2023-03-31 Thread Paul Eggert
On 2023-03-30 17:02, Jacob Bachmeyer wrote: If we did that, the guideline would be that Autoconf users can run with Perl 5.6+ whereas Autoconf developers need 5.10+. This sort of thing is routine. This is a possibility. OK, let's go with that, as it is a more-conservative change from Autoco

Re: new snapshot available: autoconf-2.72c

2023-03-31 Thread Paul Eggert
On 2023-03-28 09:12, Frederic Berat wrote: Regarding EGREP, although I agree in principle this can be solved by using AS_CASE, I'd argue that the component actually required AC_PROG_EGREP. Just following up on this since I see that I didn't reply to everybody in this thread. Today I installe

Re: new snapshot available: autoconf-2.72c

2023-03-31 Thread Paul Eggert
On 2023-03-28 13:57, Richard Purdie wrote: From a regression/failure point of view, the worrying issue is the gpgme/mpg123 issue on x32 which also appears for musl 32 and 64 bit x86 targets. https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/typhoon/#/builders/64/builds/6881/steps/11/logs/stdio https://autob

Re: [platform-testers] new snapshot available: autoconf-2.72c

2023-03-31 Thread Sam James
Paul Eggert writes: > On 2023-03-28 13:57, Richard Purdie wrote: >> From a regression/failure point of view, the worrying issue is the >> gpgme/mpg123 issue on x32 which also appears for musl 32 and 64 bit x86 >> targets. >> https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/typhoon/#/builders/64/builds/6881