From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ulrich =?UTF-8?Q?M=C3=BCller?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#15297: 24.3.50; Compression of installed .el files should be configurable Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2013 10:35:59 +0200 Message-ID: <21034.58735.377243.154796@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> References: <21034.52823.580662.797952@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <83mwnpkrfd.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1378543037 12419 80.91.229.3 (7 Sep 2013 08:37:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2013 08:37:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 15297@debbugs.gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 07 10:37:20 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VIE19-0001rj-8Y for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Sep 2013 10:37:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41158 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VIE18-0006sF-Tx for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Sep 2013 04:37:18 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54051) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VIE10-0006jH-3H for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Sep 2013 04:37:16 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VIE0s-0008WB-On for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Sep 2013 04:37:10 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:37733) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VIE0s-0008Vo-LD for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Sep 2013 04:37:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1VIE0s-0002wS-0j for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Sep 2013 04:37:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Ulrich =?UTF-8?Q?M=C3=BCller?= Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 07 Sep 2013 08:37:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 15297 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch Original-Received: via spool by 15297-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B15297.137854297211244 (code B ref 15297); Sat, 07 Sep 2013 08:37:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 15297) by debbugs.gnu.org; 7 Sep 2013 08:36:12 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46025 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1VIE03-0002vI-RD for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 07 Sep 2013 04:36:12 -0400 Original-Received: from a1www.kph.uni-mainz.de ([134.93.134.1]:32856) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1VIDzz-0002ul-Hz for 15297@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 07 Sep 2013 04:36:09 -0400 Original-Received: from a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de [134.93.134.92]) by a1www.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.7/8.13.4) with ESMTP id r878a1Jt023270; Sat, 7 Sep 2013 10:36:01 +0200 Original-Received: from a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.6/8.14.2) with ESMTP id r878Zx5h026518; Sat, 7 Sep 2013 10:35:59 +0200 Original-Received: (from ulm@localhost) by a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.6/8.14.6/Submit) id r878Zx2T026516; Sat, 7 Sep 2013 10:35:59 +0200 In-Reply-To: <83mwnpkrfd.fsf@gnu.org> X-Mailer: VM 8.2.0b under 24.3.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:78095 Archived-At: >>>>> On Sat, 07 Sep 2013, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > What's wrong with > GZIP_PROG='' make install ... > ? That it doesn't work. ;-) Assignment in the Makefile overrides the environment. ("make GZIP_PROG='' install" might work, though.) > This way, you don't need to decide up front whether you will or will > not want to compress, you decide at "make install" time. I don't understand what would be the advantage of delaying the decision. What additional information does the user have at install time that he didn't have at configure time, and that would therefore assist him with the decision? configure has the additional advantage that things are remembered in the config.status file and in Emacs' system-configuration-options variable, so you can recreate an identical configuration from that. Also, "configure --help" lists what options are available. But how would the user discover that there is a GZIP_PROG variable? By reading the Makefile? GZIP_PROG is at around line 260, not easy to find. > If you want to disable compression of Lisp files, but leave alone the > compression of Info files, then I think it is much better to introduce > GZIP_LISP in the top-level Makefile.in without adding anything to the > configure script. Again, the advantage is that no decision need be > made at configure time. Having a configure option wouldn't prevent that. You can always override the configure setting by passing a different setting of the variable to "make install".