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: A better autogen.sh Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 14:52:48 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <4D7FDFB0.6020203@cs.ucla.edu> References: <87y66fv2d3.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4D388F7F.20708@swipnet.se> <87r5c7jk5m.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4D39EF9C.1050804@cs.ucla.edu> <4D3A8666.4070609@cs.ucla.edu> <877hdvd49f.fsf@meyering.net> <83mxmrzhb6.fsf@gnu.org> <4D3C9C5B.8050303@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1300226170 17562 80.91.229.12 (15 Mar 2011 21:56:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 21:56:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 15 22:56:02 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 1PzcDg-0004Eh-16 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Mar 2011 22:56:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39671 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PzcDf-0006KX-LO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Mar 2011 17:55:59 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=54615 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PzcBe-0006Bd-Rx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Mar 2011 17:55:55 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PzcAd-0003Dp-VN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Mar 2011 17:53:54 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.62]:40401) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PzcAd-0003DQ-QM; Tue, 15 Mar 2011 17:52:51 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA01639E80F2; Tue, 15 Mar 2011 14:52:49 -0700 (PDT) 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 wp9FUd2WeUhe; Tue, 15 Mar 2011 14:52:49 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [131.179.64.200] (Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU [131.179.64.200]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4DAC939E810E; Tue, 15 Mar 2011 14:52:48 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101209 Fedora/3.1.7-0.35.b3pre.fc14 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:137257 Archived-At: On 03/15/2011 01:22 PM, Glenn Morris wrote: > Should I go ahead with installing this and removing configure? It's not just 'configure'; you can also remove aclocal.m4, lib/Makefile.in, and src/config.in. It looks good as far as it goes. Perhaps at some point we can add checks for other build prerequisites (e.g., GNU m4 versions) but there's no pressing need to do that.