From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jarek Czekalski Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Trunk r117046 fails on systems with older automake Date: Wed, 07 May 2014 08:36:35 +0200 Message-ID: <5369D473.6050408@jarek.katowice.pl> References: <868uqh4ust.fsf@gmail.com> <86sion27lb.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1399444626 22992 80.91.229.3 (7 May 2014 06:37:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 7 May 2014 06:37:06 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 07 08:36:58 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WhvTL-0004tU-W8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 May 2014 08:36:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38808 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WhvTL-0005Pb-H5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 May 2014 02:36:55 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47361) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WhvTB-0005On-EL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 May 2014 02:36:52 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WhvT3-00008J-Qr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 May 2014 02:36:45 -0400 Original-Received: from s74.linuxpl.com ([46.4.67.7]:42304) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WhvT3-000082-Kg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 May 2014 02:36:37 -0400 Original-Received: from cj.e-siemianowice.pl ([95.215.234.30] helo=[192.168.17.9]) by s74.linuxpl.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.80.1) (envelope-from ) id 1WhvT3-0003wY-Ed for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 May 2014 08:36:37 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.3.0 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x (barebone) [generic] X-Received-From: 46.4.67.7 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:171740 Archived-At: W dniu 2014-05-06 22:30, Glenn Morris pisze: > Andy Moreton wrote: > >> dnl automake 1.13 and later understand this, making -I m4 unnecessary. >> AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR(m4) >> >> >From that comment I assumed that you had changed the required minimum >> version without documenting it. > Well, that was an incorrect assumption. > > Glenn, r117046 is an example of worst possible commit message. The commit message should explain the reason for which the change was done. Most of us don't know why the change was needed. Now we now how much fuss an unclear commit may do. Jarek