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 09:03:30 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83y29oqqx9.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <57ca79ac-a899-5946-da14-9e1aa479e7c9@piermont.com> (perry@piermont.com)
> Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2021 19:11:46 -0400
> From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
>
> > To make it more clear, this is an Autoconf misfeature, and if someone
> > wants to report a bug, it should be reported to the Autoconf
> > developers; we here have nothing we can do about this kind of
> > "progress".
>
> 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).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-07-30 6:03 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 [this message]
2021-07-30 13:48 ` Perry E. Metzger
2021-07-30 13:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-30 18:35 ` Alan Third
2021-07-30 18:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
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