Re: [CORE] [HACKERS] Automating our version-stamping a bit better

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- --On Sunday, June 08, 2008 21:27:03 -0400 Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
>> Tom Lane wrote:
>>> I'm tempted to suggest letting the script invoke autoconf, too,
>>> but that would require standardizing where to find the correct
>>> version of autoconf for each branch; so it might not be such a
>>> great idea.
>
>> Unfortunately that's true. Maybe we could agree on using an alias for
>> the right version of autoconf, but it seems likely to be error prone.
>
> Actually, the way I do things is that my setup script for working
> with each particular version tree includes adjusting $PATH so that
> the right autoconf gets found just by saying "autoconf". If everyone
> who might tag releases wanted to do it the same way, then we could
> just let the script say "autoconf". But I'm not sure anybody else
> likes that plan. What I was thinking was just to have the script
> print out something like
>
> Tagged tree as 8.3.4
> Don't forget to run autoconf 2.59 before committing

I like that one ...

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