Bug 589248

Summary:	sys-devel/autoconf: add support for runstatedir
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Craig Andrews <candrews>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	candrews, mjo, qa
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=806376 https://bugs.debian.org/759647
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

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

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

2023-06-11 14:27:58 UTC

Note that we dropped this in bug 806376.