Re: Debian-specific Autoconf patches

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Stepan,

* Stepan Kasal wrote on Fri, May 26, 2006 at 08:40:36AM CEST:
> On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 09:57:02AM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
> > Here's a heads-up on the patch, to give you a feeling for what's needed.
> > I still need to add some comments and ChangeLog entries and whatnot.

> I'm afraid it would be too dangerous for 2.60, so I suggest that we
> commit the documentation part, plus the two fixes to  AC_TRY_COMMAND
> calls, and leave the rest after the release.  Ralf, would you agree?

I'm not sure which parts you refer to that you would consider too
dangerous; the *_configure_args changes?  From a glance, they could
cause some packages to fail -- many packages have custom-written hacks
to invoke sub-configures in a different way (e.g., without passing the
cache file, so that a different compiler may be used (and added in CC))
and thus use or mess with the arguments.

I haven't looked closely at the patch, though; I don't care much whether
I get to it before or after it is committed (the plan is still to look
at every change that goes into 2.60 anyways).

Cheers,
Ralf