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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: automake's .el support vs. recent loss of byte-compile-dest-file
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2017 18:37:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <833755ar44.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+8g5KH6AkZMZAfSWmtWu=XeG_9FSY0TuAdSt_jgSvXbyRN2Rg@mail.gmail.com> (message from Jim Meyering on Thu, 23 Nov 2017 08:13:58 -0800)

> From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
> Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2017 08:13:58 -0800
> Cc: emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> 
> > This incompatible change is not in NEWS.  We announced the function
> > as obsolete in Emacs 23.2, but evidently Automake didn't take notice.
> > So I'd rather we restored that functionality, perhaps with some
> > annoying warning to encourage Automake to get their act together
> > sooner rather than later.  Breaking all the Makefile.in files out there
> > doesn't sound TRT to me.
> 
> I've just posted an automake fix:
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2017-11/msg00038.html

Thanks.  The question that's important to us is, of course, when will
this fixed version be available widely enough for us to consider
removing the support for the old ones.



  reply	other threads:[~2017-11-23 16:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-23  4:41 automake's .el support vs. recent loss of byte-compile-dest-file Jim Meyering
2017-11-23  4:56 ` Paul Eggert
2017-11-23  5:02   ` Jim Meyering
2017-11-23  6:34     ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-23 16:13       ` Jim Meyering
2017-11-23 16:37         ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2017-11-27  1:17           ` Jim Meyering
2017-11-27 16:36             ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-29  3:35               ` Jim Meyering
2017-11-29  6:44                 ` Paul Eggert
2017-11-29 18:23                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-30  2:28                   ` Jim Meyering
2017-12-02 11:32                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-02 11:37               ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-02 11:57                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-17  0:34                   ` Jim Meyering
2017-12-17 15:33                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-04  3:18                 ` Glenn Morris
2017-12-04  3:41                   ` Eli Zaretskii

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