Re: Autoconf with Debian patches

[Guy Harris via tcpdump-workers <tcpdump-workers () lists tcpdump org>]

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> From: Guy Harris <gharris () sonic net>
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> Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2023 18:47:37 -0800
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> On Jan 7, 2023, at 8:51 AM, Denis Ovsienko <denis () ovsienko info> wrote:
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> > On Fri, 6 Jan 2023 17:13:20 -0800
> > Guy Harris <gharris () sonic net> wrote:
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> > > On Jan 6, 2023, at 3:31 PM, Denis Ovsienko <denis () ovsienko info>
> > > wrote:
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> > > > It is the latter, and a custom Autoconf seems an unreasonable
> > > > requirement for contributing.  
> > >
> > > Reasonable, or unreasonable?
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> > Unreasonable, if it is more complicated than installing an Autoconf
> > package using the package manager of the OS.
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> Which it is likely to be.
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> > > (By the way, have other Linux distributions applied the same changes
> > > that Debian and its derivatives have?  If not, then users of those
> > > distributions would be in the same situation as macOS and FreeBSD
> > > users.)
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> > I do not remember to what extent these patches have propagated beyond
> > Debian and Ubuntu.  Maybe somebody else has other distributions ready to
> > check?
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> Fedora 36 and later appear to ship autoconf 2.71; the Debian sid package for autoconf 2.71 applies no patches to it, 
> as, I presume, all of the Debian packages are applied (the off_t patch is already incorporated in 2.71).  Debian's 
> currently shipping 2.69, which requires their pile of patches.
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> Fedora shipped autoconf 2.69, without a patch like the Debian off_t patch but with a patch like the Debian "add 
> runstatedir" patch.  I don't know what RHEL has.
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> Looking at the Arch Linux repository, there doesn't appear to be a version of the off_t patch from when they shipped 
> 2.69; they're currently shipping 2.71.  The same applies to Gentoo.
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> But at least some of them have 2.71 patches, so there's no guarantee that all the releases that have 2.71 will generate 
> exactly the same script.
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