On 16.10.2012 17:58, David Malcolm wrote: > On Tue, 2012-10-16 at 10:59 +0200, Stefan Krah wrote: >> Charles-François Natali <neolo...@free.fr> wrote: >>> Well, so I guess all committers will have to use the same >>> Linux/FreeBSD/whatever distribution then? >>> AFAICT there's no requirement regarding the mercurial version used by >>> committers either. >> >> It should be sufficient to install autoconf-x.y into /home/user/bin or >> something similar. Installing autoconf from source really takes about >> 3 minutes. > FWIW this was also documented in the devguide, as of: > http://hg.python.org/devguide/rev/5432be4d4e1a > > though that description was then removed in: > http://hg.python.org/devguide/rev/27be97280cf
so maybe this could be restored. the python configure.ac doesn't use that internal and specific autoconf features, so it might be ok to live with the diffs. I didn't see any issues using the system supplied autoconf with any python version on not that recent distro releases. However the effort to use a specific autoconf version for each branch should be minimal (other projects do require this). Matthias _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
