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 09:03:30 +0300 Message-ID: <83y29oqqx9.fsf@gnu.org> References: <6af8fd02-e9ef-f0f6-8ebc-70051f4b4d02@piermont.com> <83v94tslgg.fsf@gnu.org> <57ca79ac-a899-5946-da14-9e1aa479e7c9@piermont.com> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="26117"; 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 08:04:46 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 1m9LdU-0006Zz-9F for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 30 Jul 2021 08:04:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36366 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m9LdS-0003Qd-RM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 30 Jul 2021 02:04:42 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:47198) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m9Lcc-0002kq-RB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Jul 2021 02:03:50 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:33290) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m9LcZ-0005nf-Do; Fri, 30 Jul 2021 02:03:47 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:3136 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 1m9LcZ-0000sW-1W; Fri, 30 Jul 2021 02:03:47 -0400 In-Reply-To: <57ca79ac-a899-5946-da14-9e1aa479e7c9@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:271825 Archived-At: > Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2021 19:11:46 -0400 > From: "Perry E. Metzger" > > > 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).