[Python-Dev] Bumping autoconf from 2.68 to 2.69

[Matthias Klose]

On 16.10.2012 17:58, David Malcolm wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-10-16 at 10:59 +0200, Stefan Krah wrote:
>> Charles-François Natali <neologix at free.fr> wrote:
>>> Well, so I guess all committers will have to use the same
>>> Linux/FreeBSD/whatever distribution then?
>>> AFAICT there's no requirement regarding the mercurial version used by
>>> committers either.
>>
>> It should be sufficient to install autoconf-x.y into /home/user/bin or
>> something similar. Installing autoconf from source really takes about
>> 3 minutes.
> FWIW this was also documented in the devguide, as of:
> http://hg.python.org/devguide/rev/5432be4d4e1a
> 
> though that description was then removed in:
> http://hg.python.org/devguide/rev/27be97280cf

so maybe this could be restored.

the python configure.ac doesn't use that internal and specific autoconf
features, so it might be ok to live with the diffs.  I didn't see any issues
using the system supplied autoconf with any python version on not that recent
distro releases.

However the effort to use a specific autoconf version for each branch should be
minimal (other projects do require this).

  Matthias