calc/ and obsolete/ aren't in subdirs.el

calc/ and obsolete/ aren't in subdirs.el

[Juanma Barranquero]

On the newest Changelog for changes to lisp/makefile.w32-in there is
this line:

        (bootstrap): Use `compile', not `compile-files'.  Use `update-subdirs'.

The effect of this change (and the reason why I didn't update the
bootstrap target after I commited Tak Ota's patch to fix update-subdirs'
working) is that now subdirs.el does contain neither obsolete/ nor calc/,
because the list of directories to put into subdirs.el is taken from the
WINS variable, and WINS does not include those directories.

Why, I don't know. I've just tried adding obsolete/ and calc/ to WINS
and doing:

  nmake realclean
  configure --with-msvc
  nmake bootstrap

and all works as expected. But Andrew took the trouble of creating a
compile-calc target, for reasons that I don't know (perhaps compile-time
performance, in the sense that calc is big and does not change very
often).

Anyway, either these directories are added to WINS or some other way to
get them into subdirs.el is needed, because with the current
lisp/makefile.w32-in, bootstraping and then doing M-x calc simply
doesn't work.


                                                           /L/e/k/t/u

Re: calc/ and obsolete/ aren't in subdirs.el

[Richard Stallman]

    Anyway, either these directories are added to WINS or some other way to
    get them into subdirs.el is needed, because with the current
    lisp/makefile.w32-in, bootstraping and then doing M-x calc simply
    doesn't work.

Could you and Andrew discuss what is the right fix, and do it?

If there is no particular reason to make this different from
the handling on other platforms, it is best to make it the same.

Re: calc/ and obsolete/ aren't in subdirs.el

[Tak Ota]

Fri, 02 Aug 2002 09:07:05 +0200: Juanma Barranquero <lektu@terra.es> wrote:

> Why, I don't know. I've just tried adding obsolete/ and calc/ to WINS
> and doing:
> 
>   nmake realclean
>   configure --with-msvc
>   nmake bootstrap
> 
> and all works as expected. But Andrew took the trouble of creating a
> compile-calc target, for reasons that I don't know (perhaps compile-time
> performance, in the sense that calc is big and does not change very
> often).
> 
> Anyway, either these directories are added to WINS or some other way to
> get them into subdirs.el is needed, because with the current
> lisp/makefile.w32-in, bootstraping and then doing M-x calc simply
> doesn't work.

For now, will you add calc/ and obsolete/ to WINS until we know why
they shouldn't/should be there so that at least it builds correctly?

-Tak

Re: calc/ and obsolete/ aren't in subdirs.el

[Juanma Barranquero]

On Sat, 3 Aug 2002 20:52:28 -0600 (MDT), Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:

> Could you and Andrew discuss what is the right fix, and do it?

Yes, I've sent him email about the issue.

> If there is no particular reason to make this different from
> the handling on other platforms, it is best to make it the same.

That's my opinion too.

I don't know Andrew's reasons, but I imagine that bootstraping on old
Windows machines must be very slow (it is, in my home 233MHz W95 :) and
calc/ is not modified very often.


                                                           /L/e/k/t/u

Re: calc/ and obsolete/ aren't in subdirs.el

[Juanma Barranquero]

On Fri, 09 Aug 2002 09:35:30 -0700 (PDT), Tak Ota <Takaaki.Ota@am.sony.com> wrote:

> For now, will you add calc/ and obsolete/ to WINS until we know why
> they shouldn't/should be there so that at least it builds correctly?

Done.


                                                           /L/e/k/t/u