GNU bug report logs - #68464
30.0.50; autogen.sh creating modified files in build-aux with Autoconf 2.72

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann <at> gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2024 06:35:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug, wontfix

Found in version 30.0.50

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: gerd.moellmann <at> gmail.com, 68464 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, schwab <at> linux-m68k.org, pierre.techoueyres <at> free.fr
Subject: bug#68464: 30.0.50; autogen.sh creating modified files in build-aux with Autoconf 2.72
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2024 11:56:08 +0200

> Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2024 16:51:06 -0800
> Cc: schwab <at> linux-m68k.org, gerd.moellmann <at> gmail.com,
>  68464-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Pierre Téchoueyres
>  <pierre.techoueyres <at> free.fr>
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
> 
> Anyway, these two files (along with other Gnulib-derived files in the 
> Emacs repository) are updated automatically by admin/merge-gnulib. Today 
> I did such an update on the master branch, so config.guess and 
> config.sub are now updated to their latest versions.

Thanks.

> I then reproduced the problem that Gerd mentioned. Gnulib's config.guess 
> etc. tend to be more up-to-date, and anyway the Emacs build is more 
> reproducible if we use the Emacs repository version of config.guess etc. 
> (instead of whatever version the developer's Autoconf happens to have), 
> so I installed the attached patch which fixed the problem for me.

And thanks.
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