Richard Hansen wrote:
>>>> Would you consider adding tests for C99 support to be moderate? That
>>>> would require upgrading autoconf to at least 2.60.
>>> It's just one (or a few) feature test macros, right? I'd be fine with that.
>>>
>>> The following entry in autoconf 2.62's changelog caught my eye:
>>> ** AC_INIT no longer alters $@; regression introduced in 2.60.
>>>
>>> So we might need to bump all the way up to 2.62, at least for releases.
>>>
>>> If we can get away with requiring 2.60+ for general dev work, and
>>> require 2.62 for official releases, that seems like a perfectly
>>> acceptable move at this point in the Subversion 1.6 release cycle.
>> construct-rolling-environment.sh already uses autoconf-2.62.
>
> Interesting. What is the purpose of that script? (There's no
> description at <http://subversion.tigris.org/tools_contrib.html> for it.)
construct-rolling-environment.sh (and it's fellows in tools/dist) are
used by the release manager for downloading appropriate packages used to
roll release tarballs.
And yeah, tools_contrib.html looks to be a bit out of date on this front. :/
-Hyrum
Received on 2008-05-08 19:47:07 CEST