Re: time for Autoconf 2.72 (was: On time64 and Large File Support)

2023-03-17 Thread Sam James
Sam James writes: > [[PGP Signed Part:Undecided]] > > >> On 3 Feb 2023, at 07:43, Frederic Berat wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I'm also in favor of an RC release, I can then rebuild Fedora packages using >> the tarball from the tester list and do some kind of A/B testing. >> > Paul, would you be w

Re: time for Autoconf 2.72 (was: On time64 and Large File Support)

2023-03-17 Thread Paul Eggert
On 3/17/23 16:47, Sam James wrote: Clang 16 was released today. Unfortunately, all released versions of autoconf still generate configure scripts which are incompatible with it. Presumably "./configure CC='clang -std=gnu17" is a workaround, though admittedly this is awkward. Is anyone aware

Re: time for Autoconf 2.72 (was: On time64 and Large File Support)

2023-03-17 Thread Jim Meyering
On Fri, Mar 17, 2023 at 6:00 PM Paul Eggert wrote: > On 3/17/23 16:47, Sam James wrote: > > Clang 16 was released today. Unfortunately, all released versions of > > autoconf still generate configure scripts which are incompatible with it. > > Presumably "./configure CC='clang -std=gnu17" is a work

Re: time for Autoconf 2.72 (was: On time64 and Large File Support)

2023-03-17 Thread Paul Eggert
On 3/17/23 19:08, Jim Meyering wrote: Can someone see if there's some small/safe set of changes that are essential? If none (or few/easy), I might have time to make a snapshot soon. As far as I know, none of the pending patches are essential and we can release what we have.