Re: Autoconf stuff

Quoting eblanca76--- via Lame-dev <[email protected]>  
(from Thu, 19 Oct 2017 12:21:27 +0200 (CEST)):

> I did a checkout of the latest svn trunk (everything went ok!) and I was
> working a bit on fixing commit r6410 (which currently prevents from building
> the frontend on my pc), then I regenerated the configure script, running
> autoconf, my ubuntu ships with version 2.69.

I have generate the most recent configure script in lame with v2.69.

> The resulting script is not identical to the previous one, so I do not fully
> trust it.

I have generated the configure script on FreeBSD, it package system  
contains some patches for autoconf, but none of them are related to  
the areas you report on. It can off course be, that Ubuntu also  
contains some patces to autoconf, maybe even n the area you have listed.

> diff -ur lame_original_untouched/lame/configure lame/configure
> --- lame_original_untouched/lame/configure	2017-08-15

[...]

The diff doesn't look like some to distrust (for lame).

> Now, I don't know what that "runstatedir" is for, neither how it can be
> skipped when generating my new configure.

Not important for lame.

> Also, I see the detection of large off_t type is done with a different trick,
> although it should work anyway.
> Are those differencies due to my autoconf version?

Any patch you may want to submit doesn't need to include a diff for  
configure, we will re-generate it anyway in case we make changes to  
configure.in.

Bye,
Alexander.

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