Re: time for Autoconf 2.72 (was: On time64 and Large File Support)

[Jim Meyering]

On Fri, Mar 17, 2023 at 7:52 PM Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
> On 3/17/23 19:08, Jim Meyering wrote:
> > Can someone see if there's some small/safe set of changes that are 
> > essential?
> > If none (or few/easy), I might have time to make a snapshot soon.
>
> As far as I know, none of the pending patches are essential and we can
> release what we have.

Good. Thanks. It just so happens that I'm about to make a snapshot of
grep (for this:
https://lists.gnu.org/r/bug-grep/2023-03/msg00005.html) using the very
latest autoconf, including many changes that were not used in making
grep-3.9 (I was surprised to realize 3.9 was bootstrapped with
something near v2.72a-65-gd081ac3e, from October(!)). Let's see how
grep snapshot testing goes, and if there's no objection by then, I'll
plan to make an autoconf snapshot within a week or so.