From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (woodpecker.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B58D02C9D for ; Fri, 17 Mar 2023 23:49:44 +0000 (UTC) References: <6953747.nAD6y4vbrC@nimes> <20221112202321.GO27919@mail.wookware.org> <951fc967-042c-4978-bd78-8bc4c8706b18@app.fastmail.com> <2bb47af4-1e52-3817-a2a3-7531ee85f2ec@cs.ucla.edu> <0e0a52f1-35ac-58e3-1c50-8654fbc214d9@cs.ucla.edu> <86e0935e-bd6e-6cf5-1018-c4221e0cd9ff@cs.ucla.edu> <0ab047de-b0a5-0c0c-3cc9-093039cb8bed@cs.ucla.edu> User-agent: mu4e 1.8.14; emacs 29.0.60 From: Sam James To: Frederic Berat , Paul Eggert , Zack Weinberg Cc: Florian Weimer , Wookey , autoconf-patches@gnu.org, c-std-porting@lists.linux.dev Subject: Re: time for Autoconf 2.72 (was: On time64 and Large File Support) Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2023 23:47:21 +0000 In-reply-to: Message-ID: <87a60b0wh8.fsf@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: c-std-porting@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature" --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sam James writes: > [[PGP Signed Part:Undecided]] > > >> On 3 Feb 2023, at 07:43, Frederic Berat wrote: >>=20 >> Hi, >>=20 >> I'm also in favor of an RC release, I can then rebuild Fedora packages u= sing the tarball from the tester list and do some kind of A/B testing. >>=20 > Paul, would you be willing to try this? I don't think much work should be= needed (famous last words) other than the tag & uploading it, > given the target audience - that is, I wouldn't worry over testing it ex= tensively given that's the point of the RC for now, and that can always be = done > before a subsequent RC or final release. > > Autoconf is currently one of the big barriers to making more progress on = the C porting front, unfortunately and trying to explain > to upstreams that some issues are ok-but-will-be-fixed-later ends up bein= g confusing. > > If you're not able to look into an RC, I can try ship a snapshot in Gento= o which won't be generally available to users, but > ask for eager users to test, but that won't help with other distros or in= terested parties. > > I'm happy to do the work if someone can tell me what needs doing, as well. > > I'm sorry to ask directly, it's just that it keeps coming up in discussio= ns with upstreams & package maintainers. Clang 16 was released today. Unfortunately, all released versions of autoconf still generate configure scripts which are incompatible with it. Is anyone aware of any issues with master as it is? I've been running with it for months. > > Best, > sam > > [[End of PGP Signed Part]] --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iOUEARYKAI0WIQQlpruI3Zt2TGtVQcJzhAn1IN+RkAUCZBT8k18UgAAAAAAuAChp c3N1ZXItZnByQG5vdGF0aW9ucy5vcGVucGdwLmZpZnRoaG9yc2VtYW4ubmV0MjVB NkJCODhERDlCNzY0QzZCNTU0MUMyNzM4NDA5RjUyMERGOTE5MA8cc2FtQGdlbnRv by5vcmcACgkQc4QJ9SDfkZD+VgEAuRxmt+PNKqIcGzfAtFV2C2v8DYELbjwuZBvw 0VHD3+kA/isxYnZSdWhSun78O/v3tOdclAH5gCv5S9Kv36xLb/IP =HXqp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--