From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: make bootstrap on trunk fails Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 21:53:12 -0800 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <4D6C89C8.9050603@cs.ucla.edu> References: <4D6759D1.2040501@cs.ucla.edu> <4D677D17.4010605@cs.ucla.edu> <4D69771D.7010607@cs.ucla.edu> <4D6C44C3.9010402@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1298958866 20986 80.91.229.12 (1 Mar 2011 05:54:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 05:54:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Noorul Islam , Emacs Development To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 01 06:54:21 2011 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PuIXJ-0008E4-PY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2011 06:54:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38670 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PuIX5-0003R9-Ia for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:54:03 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=44133 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PuIWS-00037p-CX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:53:56 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PuIWK-00051U-0Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:53:18 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.62]:47755) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PuIWJ-00051B-PC; Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:53:15 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F67439E80DC; Mon, 28 Feb 2011 21:53:13 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at smtp.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id z9RQFJm1SU2D; Mon, 28 Feb 2011 21:53:13 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.10] (pool-71-189-109-235.lsanca.fios.verizon.net [71.189.109.235]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 19B7839E80DB; Mon, 28 Feb 2011 21:53:13 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101208 Thunderbird/3.1.7 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 131.179.128.62 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:136640 Archived-At: On 02/28/2011 05:38 PM, Glenn Morris wrote: > I may do that sometimes, yes, because I consider regenerating configure > and committing it a PITA. I usually don't have the same version of > autoconf as the last guy, and I dislike adding a large, meaningless > chunk to the diff. If this is standard practice, perhaps we should have --enable-maintainer-mode be the default behavior for 'configure'. That way, if someone does a "bzr update" that updates configure.in without updating "configure", then "make" should do the right thing and run "autoconf" to rebuild "configure".