Re: [HACKERS] Autoconf version discrepancies

2001-01-18 Thread Patrick Welche
On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 04:11:20PM -0300, The Hermit Hacker wrote: > On Sun, 8 Oct 2000, Tom Lane wrote: ... > > Also, we not long ago went through the exercise of making sure that all > > committers were standardized on the same version of Autoconf, ie, 2.13. > > Now it emerges that hub.org is r

Re: [HACKERS] Autoconf version discrepancies

2000-10-09 Thread The Hermit Hacker
On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Bruce Momjian writes: > > > I always telnet into hub to run autoconf. I have a little script in my > > ~momjian/bin directory called pgautoconf that does that, and cvs commits > > the changes. > > That's exactly the problem, the version on hub.org

Re: [HACKERS] Autoconf version discrepancies

2000-10-09 Thread The Hermit Hacker
On Sun, 8 Oct 2000, Tom Lane wrote: > Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> The patches ad, ae, and af will cause configure to fail on machines > >> without mktemp. It's not like things get "screwed up" for me, but the > >> point of Autoconf is portability to *all* machines, so FreeBSD-

Re: [HACKERS] Autoconf version discrepancies

2000-10-09 Thread The Hermit Hacker
On Sun, 8 Oct 2000, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > The Hermit Hacker writes: > > > Okay, autoconf on hub.org is based on what is in ports ... the only > > "custom patches" are that which are in /usr/ports/devel/autoconf/patches, > > and I just went through them and there doesn't look like anything *o

Re: [HACKERS] Autoconf version discrepancies

2000-10-09 Thread Matthew Kirkwood
On Sun, 8 Oct 2000, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Are there any platforms that do not have mktemp? Hard to imagine. mktemp(1) or mktemp(3)? The latter is pretty much universal (and dangerous too). The former is, AFAICS, available only on some Linux and BSD. But it's under the BSD licence, and is not

Re: [HACKERS] Autoconf version discrepancies

2000-10-08 Thread Tom Lane
Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> The patches ad, ae, and af will cause configure to fail on machines >> without mktemp. It's not like things get "screwed up" for me, but the >> point of Autoconf is portability to *all* machines, so FreeBSD-specific >> changes/optimizations(?) seem mis

Re: [HACKERS] Autoconf version discrepancies

2000-10-08 Thread Bruce Momjian
> The Hermit Hacker writes: > > > Okay, autoconf on hub.org is based on what is in ports ... the only > > "custom patches" are that which are in /usr/ports/devel/autoconf/patches, > > and I just went through them and there doesn't look like anything *odd* in > > there ... can you look at those pa

Re: [HACKERS] Autoconf version discrepancies

2000-10-08 Thread Peter Eisentraut
The Hermit Hacker writes: > Okay, autoconf on hub.org is based on what is in ports ... the only > "custom patches" are that which are in /usr/ports/devel/autoconf/patches, > and I just went through them and there doesn't look like anything *odd* in > there ... can you look at those patches and te

Re: [HACKERS] Autoconf version discrepancies

2000-10-03 Thread Bruce Momjian
> Bruce Momjian writes: > > > I always telnet into hub to run autoconf. I have a little script in my > > ~momjian/bin directory called pgautoconf that does that, and cvs commits > > the changes. > > That's exactly the problem, the version on hub.org is custom-patched for > FreeBSD and has signi

Re: [HACKERS] Autoconf version discrepancies

2000-10-03 Thread Vince Vielhaber
On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Bruce Momjian writes: > > > I always telnet into hub to run autoconf. I have a little script in my > > ~momjian/bin directory called pgautoconf that does that, and cvs commits > > the changes. > > That's exactly the problem, the version on hub.org

Re: [HACKERS] Autoconf version discrepancies

2000-10-03 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Bruce Momjian writes: > I always telnet into hub to run autoconf. I have a little script in my > ~momjian/bin directory called pgautoconf that does that, and cvs commits > the changes. That's exactly the problem, the version on hub.org is custom-patched for FreeBSD and has significant loser pot

Re: [HACKERS] Autoconf version discrepancies

2000-10-02 Thread Bruce Momjian
I always telnet into hub to run autoconf. I have a little script in my ~momjian/bin directory called pgautoconf that does that, and cvs commits the changes. > I have noticed that some operating system distributors ship custom-patched > versions of Autoconf. That is pretty brain-dead because so