bpo-43617: Check autoconf-archive package in configure.ac (GH-25016)

[tiran]

Signed-off-by: Christian Heimes [email protected]

https://bugs.python.org/issue43617

[miss-islington]

Thanks @tiran for the PR 🌮🎉.. I'm working now to backport this PR to: 3.8, 3.9.
🐍🍒⛏🤖 I'm not a witch! I'm not a witch!

[miss-islington]

Sorry, @tiran, I could not cleanly backport this to 3.9 due to a conflict.
Please backport using cherry_picker on command line.
cherry_picker 5d6e8c1c1a5f667cdce99cb3c563ac922198678d 3.9

[miss-islington]

Sorry @tiran, I had trouble checking out the 3.8 backport branch.
Please backport using cherry_picker on command line.
cherry_picker 5d6e8c1c1a5f667cdce99cb3c563ac922198678d 3.8

[bedevere-bot]

⚠️⚠️⚠️ Buildbot failure ⚠️⚠️⚠️

Hi! The buildbot s390x Fedora Clang Installed 3.x has failed when building commit 5d6e8c1.

What do you need to do:

1. Don't panic.
2. Check the buildbot page in the devguide if you don't know what the buildbots are or how they work.
3. Go to the page of the buildbot that failed (https://buildbot.python.org/all/#builders/531/builds/846) and take a look at the build logs.
4. Check if the failure is related to this commit (5d6e8c1) or if it is a false positive.
5. If the failure is related to this commit, please, reflect that on the issue and make a new Pull Request with a fix.

You can take a look at the buildbot page here:

https://buildbot.python.org/all/#builders/531/builds/846

Summary of the results of the build (if available):

Click to see traceback logs

fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/python/cpython.git/': The requested URL returned error: 429

chmod: cannot access 'target/': No such file or directory

make: *** No rule to make target 'distclean'.  Stop.

[bedevere-bot]

GH-25034 is a backport of this pull request to the 3.9 branch.

[bedevere-bot]

GH-25035 is a backport of this pull request to the 3.8 branch.

[fanisk21]

Hi Guys, why the changes made by bpo-38527: fix configure script for Solaris #16845 got removed here?