bug#8493: autoconf fails if env var U set

2011-04-13 Thread Tom Lane
Eric Blake writes: > On 04/13/2011 11:31 AM, Tim Wallace wrote: >> This is a bug discovered when trying to build postgresql 9.0.3 on Redhat >> Enterprise Linux 5. If env var U is set, it fails, as pointed out by >> the Postgres maintainer. > The issue still exists in autoconf 2.68 (and autoconf.

bug#8493: autoconf fails if env var U set

2011-04-13 Thread Paul Eggert
On 04/13/2011 11:02 AM, Tom Lane wrote: > If the intended use is only for ansi2knr, I'd even argue that it > should be off by default ... how many people care about ansi2knr > anymore? Nobody. It would be fine to remove the ansi2knr stuff from Autoconf.

bug#8493: autoconf fails if env var U set

2011-04-13 Thread Eric Blake
On 04/13/2011 11:31 AM, Tim Wallace wrote: > This is a bug discovered when trying to build postgresql 9.0.3 on Redhat > Enterprise Linux 5. If env var U is set, it fails, as pointed out by > the Postgres maintainer. I guess it's autoconf 2.59, and I'm guessing > you're past that now, so possibly