[8u] RFR(XS): 8233880: Support compilers with multi-digit major version numbers

[Severin Gehwolf]

Hi Florian,

On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 9:58 AM Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> * Severin Gehwolf:
>
> > Thanks for the review! Yes, generated-configure.sh changes are due to
> > version skew of autoconf being used. I'll try to generate configure on
> > an older machine so as to avoid this before pushing. Does that sound
> > ok?
>
> THe runstatedir changes come and go (even in the jdk8u-dev history),
> depending on whether Debian's autoconf is used, which patches its
> autoconf 2.69 build to handle runstatedir.  There hasn't been an
> autoconf upstream release in many, many years, so going back to older
> versions will not solve this.  If you want to avoid this change, you
> either have to use Debian's autoconf, or back it out manually.

OK. Thanks for the heads-up.

Cheers,
Severin