From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: A better autogen.sh Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 21:12:26 +0200 Message-ID: <83vcziq3qd.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87y66fv2d3.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4D388F7F.20708@swipnet.se> <87r5c7jk5m.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4D39EF9C.1050804@cs.ucla.edu> <4D3A8666.4070609@cs.ucla.edu> <877hdvd49f.fsf@meyering.net> <83mxmrzhb6.fsf@gnu.org> <4D3C9C5B.8050303@cs.ucla.edu> <20aagvym19.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1300302788 25744 80.91.229.12 (16 Mar 2011 19:13:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 19:13:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 16 20:13:04 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pzw9W-0007rA-8h for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 20:13:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38196 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pzw9V-0008NV-KN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 15:13:01 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=47947 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pzw94-0007rU-64 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 15:12:35 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pzw93-0007Si-1y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 15:12:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:57932) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pzw92-0007SE-Jz; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 15:12:32 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LI60040000S1Y00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 21:12:31 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.124.107.218]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LI6003IW00P8290@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 21:12:26 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <20aagvym19.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:137308 Archived-At: > From: Glenn Morris > Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 14:09:54 -0400 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > Stefan Monnier wrote: > > > I.e. make a "boostrap-files" (or should it say "generated-files"?) > > directory. Move configure, aclocal.m4, src/config.in (and > > lisp/ldefs-boot.el) to it, then install your change > [...] > > We should try and keep the bootstrap-files more or less up to date > > (e.g. so the MS-DOS port can use them) for now, so that people who > > insist on not installing autoconf can still bootstrap. > > OK. I will work on implementing that. Thanks! > And another script to copy the generated/ files into place for those > who want to use them. This is not needed, at least not for the MS-DOS build. config.bat can access the files wherever they are, assuming that these files will be in the release tarball. > And changing the msdos/ build to look for config.in there. Thanks for the offer, but I can easily do this myself. No need for you to waste your time. I doubt that anyone but myself builds the MS-DOS port from the bzr repo these days anyway.