From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 45012@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#45012: 27.1.50; Emacs 27.1 release archive missing emacs-module.h
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2021 20:01:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAArVCkQfF7PEQJUPDBZGuc4X+vDEaqbt5=AJxkBqZ64XXvm3qw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83v9d6euqx.fsf@gnu.org>
Am Sa., 12. Dez. 2020 um 19:37 Uhr schrieb Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>:
>
> > From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
> > Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2020 15:55:46 +0100
> > Cc: 45012@debbugs.gnu.org
> >
> > > > Concretely, I'm using emacs-module.h for my Go bindings to the module
> > > > API (https://godoc.org/github.com/phst/emacs). The compilation of the
> > > > library naturally requires emacs-module.h, but not Emacs.
> > >
> > > So you will build the module, but never test it or use it? Is that a
> > > reasonably practical use case?
> >
> > It depends what "you" is. "You" could be a continuous build system
> > that's capable of compiling C code, but not of running Emacs. That's
> > not far-fetched; compiling C code is far more common than running
> > Emacs, and therefore is better supported by build systems.
>
> There's no need to build Emacs, you only need to configure it to get
> emacs-module.h generated.
Yes, but in practice running configure is more complex than compiling:
compiling only needs a C compiler and a linker, while running
configure also needs a shell and (potentially) other programs like
pkg-config. So not having to run the compile step doesn't help much
here.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-24 19:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-02 17:52 bug#45012: 27.1.50; Emacs 27.1 release archive missing emacs-module.h Philipp Stephani
2020-12-02 18:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-12-02 18:11 ` Philipp Stephani
2020-12-02 18:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-12-02 18:47 ` Philipp Stephani
2020-12-02 18:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-12-06 17:13 ` Philipp Stephani
2020-12-06 19:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-12-12 14:55 ` Philipp Stephani
2020-12-12 18:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-24 19:01 ` Philipp Stephani [this message]
2020-12-12 18:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-24 19:02 ` Philipp Stephani
2021-10-11 12:36 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-11 15:32 ` Paul Eggert
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