From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: emacs floating point error during dump? Date: 15 Jul 2003 01:18:09 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <5xsmp8aea6.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> References: <200307081321.h68DLnC3009346@rum.cs.yale.edu> <200307091344.h69DiZXj014067@rum.cs.yale.edu> <200307132306.h6DN6Wpq004158@rum.cs.yale.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1058217955 22646 80.91.224.249 (14 Jul 2003 21:25:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 21:25:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Sam Steingold , rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 14 23:25:51 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19cApT-0005ss-00 for ; Mon, 14 Jul 2003 23:25:51 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19cB2t-0002VC-00 for ; Mon, 14 Jul 2003 23:39:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19cApP-0002TL-Ne for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 14 Jul 2003 17:25:47 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19cAnf-00027W-63 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Jul 2003 17:23:59 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19cAlF-0000nv-8d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Jul 2003 17:21:30 -0400 Original-Received: from pfepa.post.tele.dk ([193.162.153.2]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19cAk7-0008Gw-4v; Mon, 14 Jul 2003 17:20:19 -0400 Original-Received: from kfs2.cua.dk.cua.dk (0x503e2644.bynxx3.adsl-dhcp.tele.dk [80.62.38.68]) by pfepa.post.tele.dk (Postfix) with SMTP id 49C7547FF96; Mon, 14 Jul 2003 23:20:14 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: "Stefan Monnier" In-Reply-To: <200307132306.h6DN6Wpq004158@rum.cs.yale.edu> Original-Lines: 20 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:15603 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:15603 "Stefan Monnier" writes: > > When talking about code, you rightfully insist on having the correct > > solution, not just "half correct" or "mostly correct". > > > > Why do you settle for half-solutions with the build infrastructure? > > While I completely agree that I'd prefer to have full (and auto-generated) > dependencies between .c and .h files in the makefile, the build > infrastructure has many more "incorrect" parts than that and > I doubt we will ever have a "correct" solution. There is always > a tradeoff between convenience and excessive recompilation. What about ./configure --with-lax-dependencies for those who _knows_ what they are doing and thus can be lax about dependencies... and let the rest of us have full dependencies by default. -- Kim F. Storm http://www.cua.dk