Re: time for Autoconf 2.72 (was: On time64 and Large File Support)

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> On 3 Feb 2023, at 07:43, Frederic Berat <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> I'm also in favor of an RC release, I can then rebuild Fedora packages =
using the tarball from the tester list and do some kind of A/B testing.
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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 =
extensively 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 =
being confusing.

If you're not able to look into an RC, I can try ship a snapshot in =
Gentoo which won't be generally available to users, but
ask for eager users to test, but that won't help with other distros or =
interested 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 =
discussions with upstreams & package maintainers.

Best,
sam

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