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: Fri, 30 Jul 2021 09:48:50 -0400 Message-ID: <6029a525-e42a-56f8-8107-043888e2eaff@piermont.com> References: <6af8fd02-e9ef-f0f6-8ebc-70051f4b4d02@piermont.com> <83v94tslgg.fsf@gnu.org> <57ca79ac-a899-5946-da14-9e1aa479e7c9@piermont.com> <83y29oqqx9.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="16384"; 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 Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 30 15:49:33 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 1m9StI-000433-OM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 30 Jul 2021 15:49:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58788 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m9StH-0008H2-1T for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 30 Jul 2021 09:49:31 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:33050) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m9Ssg-0007bA-Dh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Jul 2021 09:48:54 -0400 Original-Received: from hacklheber.piermont.com ([2001:470:30:84:e276:63ff:fe62:3400]:37702) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m9Sse-0007kD-Gc; Fri, 30 Jul 2021 09:48:54 -0400 Original-Received: from snark.cb.piermont.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hacklheber.piermont.com (Postfix) with UTF8SMTP id E9D4619E; Fri, 30 Jul 2021 09:48:50 -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 B17A92DE92E; Fri, 30 Jul 2021 09:48:50 -0400 (EDT) Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: <83y29oqqx9.fsf@gnu.org> Received-SPF: pass client-ip=2001:470:30:84:e276:63ff:fe62:3400; 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:271845 Archived-At: On 7/30/21 02:03, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> >> Couldn't we just not check in those two files? > How will then cloning the repository produce them in the working tree? > Our build process doesn't generate them, and people do use older > versions of Autoconf (I do). > We could copy them in during the build. Alternatively, we could check in the latest versions; older versions of autoconf won't overwrite them. Perry