From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: build modifies config.guess and config.sub
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2021 16:54:36 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83h7gbrjoj.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6029a525-e42a-56f8-8107-043888e2eaff@piermont.com> (perry@piermont.com)
> Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2021 09:48:50 -0400
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
>
> 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.
Sorry, I don't understand what that means in practice. Please
elaborate.
> Alternatively, we could check in the latest versions; older versions
> of autoconf won't overwrite them.
Don't they come from some external Git repository? If so, checking in
changed versions is asking for trouble.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-07-30 13:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-07-28 20:17 build modifies config.guess and config.sub Perry E. Metzger
2021-07-28 20:27 ` Philipp
2021-07-29 6:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-29 23:11 ` Perry E. Metzger
2021-07-30 6:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-30 13:48 ` Perry E. Metzger
2021-07-30 13:54 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-07-30 18:35 ` Alan Third
2021-07-30 18:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
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