From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David De La Harpe Golden Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: New build process? Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 13:37:27 +0100 Message-ID: <4E315807.5070703@harpegolden.net> References: <20110726184220.GA6390@acm.acm> <87bowg6fre.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <4E2F2084.7070001@gmail.com> <87zkjzzv21.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1311856660 31712 80.91.229.12 (28 Jul 2011 12:37:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 12:37:40 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 28 14:37:36 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QmPqJ-0006Xl-A7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 14:37:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33187 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QmPqI-0000d7-KR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 08:37:34 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:46502) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QmPqG-0000cr-7A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 08:37:33 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QmPqF-0000nV-CI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 08:37:32 -0400 Original-Received: from harpegolden.net ([65.99.215.13]:42006) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QmPqF-0000nQ-94 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 08:37:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [87.198.47.59] (87-198-47-59.ptr.magnet.ie [87.198.47.59]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "David De La Harpe Golden", Issuer "David De La Harpe Golden Personal CA rev 3" (verified OK)) by harpegolden.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 58377683B9 for ; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 13:37:29 +0100 (IST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110626 Icedove/3.1.11 In-Reply-To: <87zkjzzv21.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 65.99.215.13 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:142447 Archived-At: On 27/07/11 14:56, David Kastrup wrote: > The build process _is_ simple. The question is more about it being > discoverable. Adding two sentences to INSTALL in the line of > > These are the installation instructions for compiling Emacs from a > distribution tarball. If you are working from a Bazaar checkout, > please refer to INSTALL.BZR. > Note INSTALL does already say, right near the top: """ For information about building from a Bazaar checkout (rather than a release), also read the file INSTALL.BZR. """ Now, there's a small technical issue that "checkout" means something (or two things) specific in bzr jargon - heavyweight checkout / bound branch or lightweight checkout, so AFAIUI it's perfectly feasible to build emacs from a local bzr branch that isn't a checkout in bzr terms, but that's probably overly pedantic. People who get their emacs sources from some unofficial git repository or something might conceivably think "oh, but I didn't use bzr or a release", but I don't think emacs can be responsible for such things - bzr is the current official VCS, for better or worse.