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Bug 589248 - sys-devel/autoconf: add support for runstatedir
Summary: sys-devel/autoconf: add support for runstatedir
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo's Team for Core System packages
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Reported: 2016-07-20 15:57 UTC by Craig Andrews
Modified: 2023-06-11 14:27 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description Craig Andrews gentoo-dev 2016-07-20 15:57:00 UTC
Upstream autoconf has introduced the ability to set runstatedir with an
argument to configure for the 2.70 release.

Other distros (such as Debian, see https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=759647 ) have backported the support for runstatedir to 2.6.9 - I think Gentoo should do the same.

Only 1 commit needs to be patched in and it does so cleanly.
Comment 1 Craig Andrews gentoo-dev 2016-07-20 16:33:08 UTC
https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/1924
Comment 2 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2019-12-15 10:53:20 UTC
commit fb0a252c2de4c6675413db36631e13853764493b
Author: Lars Wendler <polynomial-c@gentoo.org>
Date:   Thu Nov 28 11:25:30 2019

    sys-devel/autoconf: Revbump to add runstatedir

    Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.80, Repoman-2.3.19
    Signed-off-by: Lars Wendler <polynomial-c@gentoo.org>
Comment 3 Michael Orlitzky gentoo-dev 2019-12-16 00:30:42 UTC
A bit late now, but on the pull request a few people objected for what are IMO good reasons. Gentoo developers do a lot of build system fixing, and this is going to lead to bugs being introduced by anyone running Gentoo. For example,

  https://github.com/trusteddomainproject/OpenDKIM/pull/41/commits/e79c9290a13

would not have been caught after this change, because it looks like autoconf-2.69 supports runstatedir on Gentoo. Even if I remember that our version is patched (I probably won't), I have no way to test the workaround in that PR any longer, because --runstatedir works on Gentoo regardless.
Comment 4 Michał Górny archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2019-12-16 07:50:22 UTC
I feel it's a bit weird to CC the two of us here.  I suppose you should CC the whole qa instead, to get proper team opinion.
Comment 5 Michael Orlitzky gentoo-dev 2019-12-16 15:02:55 UTC
(In reply to Michał Górny from comment #4)
> I feel it's a bit weird to CC the two of us here.  I suppose you should CC
> the whole qa instead, to get proper team opinion.

It was just a "heads up," since you two objected to the change on the pull request. I don't think this is a QA issue.
Comment 6 Sam James archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2023-06-11 14:27:58 UTC
Note that we dropped this in bug 806376.