Re: [RFA] testsuite cleanups (part 2)

[Elena Zannoni <ezannoni at redhat dot com>]

Michael Elizabeth Chastain writes:
 > eza> [PS. I assume I used the correct autoconf, but I am nost sure: I used the
 > eza> autoconf-000227 snapshot].
 > 
 > ms> In view of the large diffs in configure, I suspect this is indeed the
 > ms> wrong version of autoconf. The rest of the change is approved. If you
 > ms> don't easily solve the autoconf issue, you might consider leaving
 > ms> configure alone -- it's just an extra test...
 > 
 > A little sniffing indicates that the last commit to 'configure.in'
 > used autoconf 2.13 to generate 'configure'.  That's where the diff
 > is coming from.

I think that 000227 also brands itself as 2.13. I think this may be
where the confusion comes from, the configure file tells you
"configure generated by autoconf version 2.13" in both cases.

 > 
 > So either the blessed version has changed, or the last commit to
 > 'configure.in' was done with the wrong autoconf.
 > 
 > I agree it might be useful to split the patch, if we can't get a
 > quick resolution to "which autoconf is blessed".
 > 

Ok, this issue seems to be resolved now. Let me know when I can commit,
or not :-).

 > Michael C

elena