From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Perry E. Metzger" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: build modifies config.guess and config.sub Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2021 19:11:46 -0400 Message-ID: <57ca79ac-a899-5946-da14-9e1aa479e7c9@piermont.com> References: <6af8fd02-e9ef-f0f6-8ebc-70051f4b4d02@piermont.com> <83v94tslgg.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="19539"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.0 To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 30 01:12:34 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1m9FCc-0004to-Kf for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 30 Jul 2021 01:12:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35904 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m9FCa-0005xr-Kq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 29 Jul 2021 19:12:32 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:49554) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m9FC0-0005Gh-5P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Jul 2021 19:11:56 -0400 Original-Received: from hacklheber.piermont.com ([166.84.7.14]:51392) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m9FBy-0003od-CG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Jul 2021 19:11:55 -0400 Original-Received: from snark.cb.piermont.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hacklheber.piermont.com (Postfix) with UTF8SMTP id 5020D15B for ; Thu, 29 Jul 2021 19:11:47 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from [10.160.2.107] (jabberwock.cb.piermont.com [10.160.2.107]) by snark.cb.piermont.com (Postfix) with UTF8SMTP id 14F2B2DE11E for ; Thu, 29 Jul 2021 19:11:47 -0400 (EDT) Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: <83v94tslgg.fsf@gnu.org> Received-SPF: pass client-ip=166.84.7.14; envelope-from=perry@piermont.com; helo=hacklheber.piermont.com X-Spam_score_int: -19 X-Spam_score: -2.0 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.0 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, NICE_REPLY_A=-0.125, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:271805 Archived-At: 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