From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ralf Wildenhues Newsgroups: gmane.comp.lib.gnulib.bugs,gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: syncing Emacs from sources maintained elsewhere Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 07:18:06 +0100 Organization: Institute for Numerical Simulation, University of Bonn Message-ID: <20110124061806.GA11590@gmx.de> References: <4D2BA939.5090903@cs.ucla.edu> <4D34A88F.4080400@cs.ucla.edu> <4D35D842.5030003@cs.ucla.edu> <83wrlvztda.fsf@gnu.org> <4D3C91E2.3010007@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1295849913 6114 80.91.229.12 (24 Jan 2011 06:18:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 06:18:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , bug-gnulib , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: bug-gnulib-bounces+gnu-bug-gnulib=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 24 07:18:29 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gnu-bug-gnulib@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PhFky-0007SK-Ph for gnu-bug-gnulib@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Jan 2011 07:18:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60300 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PhFkw-0008Od-7c for gnu-bug-gnulib@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Jan 2011 01:18:26 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=47549 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PhFki-0008ON-Li for bug-gnulib@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Jan 2011 01:18:14 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PhFkh-0004uG-Mp for bug-gnulib@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Jan 2011 01:18:12 -0500 Original-Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net ([213.165.64.23]:60922) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PhFkh-0004tY-81 for bug-gnulib@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Jan 2011 01:18:11 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 24 Jan 2011 06:18:08 -0000 Original-Received: from xdsl-89-0-176-149.netcologne.de (EHLO localhost.localdomain) [89.0.176.149] by mail.gmx.net (mp013) with SMTP; 24 Jan 2011 07:18:08 +0100 X-Authenticated: #13673931 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18oVSop/8UopSTX64hyYePDGgY+aVy4Zvjj6Wbwzq ZVpj+8L7FoktU7 Original-Received: from ralf by localhost.localdomain with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PhFkd-000325-4g; Mon, 24 Jan 2011 07:18:07 +0100 Mail-Followup-To: Paul Eggert , Eli Zaretskii , bug-gnulib , emacs-devel@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4D3C91E2.3010007@cs.ucla.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2010-08-04) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: bug-gnulib@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Gnulib discussion list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnulib-bounces+gnu-bug-gnulib=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnulib-bounces+gnu-bug-gnulib=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.lib.gnulib.bugs:24884 gmane.emacs.devel:134886 Archived-At: * Paul Eggert wrote on Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 09:38:58PM CET: > On 01/23/2011 04:39 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > . Why are PACKAGE and VERSION needed, and where are they used? > > That's another Automake thing. PACKAGE should be "emacs", > and VERSION "24.0.50". VERSION is used in some auxiliary > programs like lib-src/etags.c. Emacs doesn't use PACKAGE > anywhere now, but perhaps it will someday. You can use the Automake option 'no-define' to avoid these two being AC_DEFINEd. Cheers, Ralf