From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eric S. Raymond" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs-devel Digest, Vol 52, Issue 61 Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2008 15:37:47 -0400 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20080607193747.GB1420@thyrsus.com> References: <20080607125159.8A74F9F05B4@grelber.thyrsus.com> <20080607132037.GA21979@thyrsus.com> <20080607141452.GF1812@muc.de> <20080607152408.GG1812@muc.de> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1212867488 11163 80.91.229.12 (7 Jun 2008 19:38:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2008 19:38:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Alan Mackenzie , emacs-devel@gnu.org, lekktu@gmail.com To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 07 21:38:50 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1K54FU-0000WG-QR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 21:38:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54425 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K54Eh-0006Hg-WD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 15:38:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K54Ec-0006G0-FX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 15:37:54 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K54Eb-0006Fc-8L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 15:37:53 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=35169 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K54Ea-0006FY-WE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 15:37:53 -0400 Original-Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:39663 helo=snark.thyrsus.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K54EZ-00064Y-GM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 15:37:52 -0400 Original-Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 23) id 035198301EC; Sat, 7 Jun 2008 15:37:48 -0400 (EDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:98606 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii : > > Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2008 15:24:08 +0000 > > From: Alan Mackenzie > > Cc: "Eric S. Raymond" , emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > > > Does "cvs update -d" create the lisp/nxml dir? > > > > Yes, indeed! And my trunk copy has built. Calloo, callay! > > So the rant about broken Emacs build machinery boiled down to a > cockpit error invoking CVS? Well, that's one way to put it. An equally valid analysis would be that -d ought to be the default rather than an option I've never heard of before, and CVS is broken as designed. -- Eric S. Raymond