From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: CHECK_STRUCTS/dmpstruct.h mechanism is broken. Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2019 20:08:41 +0300 Message-ID: <83a7gg4pk6.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20190228202146.GC4686@ACM> <20190228205955.GD4686@ACM> <20190410162203.GA4009@ACM> <9809d5ce-c1c4-48e9-6dac-489431b34067@cs.ucla.edu> <671ba8dd-894b-5698-d162-8901b1098b9a@cs.ucla.edu> <83k1g04al8.fsf@gnu.org> <93b861b3-41d2-e590-d4b8-46a4bb64bfe8@cs.ucla.edu> <8736mmxr2e.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <87h8b1yrsi.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <17e9662c-6a4a-b66d-f573-4c2cdc9756be@cs.ucla.edu> <835zr55jco.fsf@gnu.org> <480a5ebc-3759-293b-295e-4003dc4107b6@cs.ucla.edu> Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="16897"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: Stromeko@nexgo.de, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 23 19:09:41 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hIyvK-0004En-Bn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Apr 2019 19:09:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56903 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hIyvJ-000379-BV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Apr 2019 13:09:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:33194) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hIyuv-0002xe-1M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Apr 2019 13:09:14 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:38388) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hIyut-0007uq-Fp; Tue, 23 Apr 2019 13:09:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3092 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1hIyuW-0000ts-1S; Tue, 23 Apr 2019 13:08:51 -0400 In-reply-to: <480a5ebc-3759-293b-295e-4003dc4107b6@cs.ucla.edu> (message from Paul Eggert on Tue, 23 Apr 2019 09:28:06 -0700) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:235832 Archived-At: > Cc: rms@gnu.org, Stromeko@nexgo.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: Paul Eggert > Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2019 09:28:06 -0700 > > On 4/22/19 11:25 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > Does this assume we could have both Makefile and makefile in the same > > directory? That's false on case-insensitive filesystems. > > The 'test -f makefile' prevents 'configure' from overwriting Makefile on > case-insensitive filesystems. So on these systems one needs a > GNU-compatible 'make'. Ah, okay. Then there's no problem. > I am still of the opinion that this whole thing is a mistake and > that we should stick with what Emacs 25 and 26 do, as that's simpler > and will avoid problems such as the one you mention. Then perhaps we shouldn't do this mistake.