Re: Please test autoreconf from zack/autoreconf-exclude branch

On Mon, Mar 9, 2026, at 1:16 PM, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 7, 2026, at 10:39 AM, Bruno Haible via Discussion list for 
> the autoconf build system wrote:
>> This latest commit has a regression, in the $autopoint_works_without_gtver
>> determination (bin/autoreconf.in around line 600).
>>
>> The autopoint versions that should match are:
>>   - 0.23.x with x >= 2
>>   - 0.24.x with x >= 2
>>   - 0.25.x with x >= 1
>>   - 0.26 and newer.
>> Because this is where the fix was deployed in July 2025 [1].
>>
>> The previous regex did that correctly (and also allowed version suffixes
>> that are not numbers).
>>
>> The new regex that you put in there rejects the versions 0.23.2 and 0.24.2,
>> Version 0.23.2 is the current one on Debian Unstable, Ubuntu 26.04, and
>> Chimera Linux [2].
>
> I will fix this

Fixed in commit 52888c93.  I plan to merge the branch to master in the next few days.

zw