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From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: build modifies config.guess and config.sub
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2021 19:11:46 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <57ca79ac-a899-5946-da14-9e1aa479e7c9@piermont.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83v94tslgg.fsf@gnu.org>

On 7/29/21 02:06, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>
>>> Howdy, all!
>>>
>>> Whenever I do a "git status" after cleaning up after a build, I learn that the files
>>>
>>> build-aux/config.guess
>>> build-aux/config.sub
>>>
>>> have been modified. It's easy enough to do a "git restore" on them, but should they should actually be checked in? I thought they were supplied by the autotools?
>> This issue has been discussed earlier (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2021-05/msg00130.html), but without conclusion.
> There was a conclusion, from my POV:
>
>    https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2021-05/msg00187.html
>
> To make it more clear, this is an Autoconf misfeature, and if someone
> wants to report a bug, it should be reported to the Autoconf
> developers; we here have nothing we can do about this kind of
> "progress".

Couldn't we just not check in those two files?

Perry






  reply	other threads:[~2021-07-29 23:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-07-28 20:17 build modifies config.guess and config.sub Perry E. Metzger
2021-07-28 20:27 ` Philipp
2021-07-29  6:06   ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-29 23:11     ` Perry E. Metzger [this message]
2021-07-30  6:03       ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-30 13:48         ` Perry E. Metzger
2021-07-30 13:54           ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-30 18:35             ` Alan Third
2021-07-30 18:53               ` Eli Zaretskii

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