From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: build modifies config.guess and config.sub Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2021 16:54:36 +0300 Message-ID: <83h7gbrjoj.fsf@gnu.org> References: <6af8fd02-e9ef-f0f6-8ebc-70051f4b4d02@piermont.com> <83v94tslgg.fsf@gnu.org> <57ca79ac-a899-5946-da14-9e1aa479e7c9@piermont.com> <83y29oqqx9.fsf@gnu.org> <6029a525-e42a-56f8-8107-043888e2eaff@piermont.com> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="8580"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Perry E. Metzger" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 30 15:55:40 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 1m9SzE-00021r-92 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 30 Jul 2021 15:55:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33486 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m9SzC-0002Aj-9f for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 30 Jul 2021 09:55:38 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:34882) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m9Syi-0001Rh-Ma for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Jul 2021 09:55:08 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:39578) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m9Syi-0003dX-B6; Fri, 30 Jul 2021 09:55:08 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:4207 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m9Syg-0005OQ-4N; Fri, 30 Jul 2021 09:55:08 -0400 In-Reply-To: <6029a525-e42a-56f8-8107-043888e2eaff@piermont.com> (perry@piermont.com) 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:271846 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2021 09:48:50 -0400 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: "Perry E. Metzger" > > 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.