From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton@gmail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Trunk r117046 fails on systems with older automake
Date: Wed, 07 May 2014 11:00:26 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eh06jqkl.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c3r446314g.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>
Glenn Morris writes:
> I interpret this to mean that your aclocal is broken
It's not *his* aclocal, as several people have reported the same
behavior. It's unlikely that all of these users have made the same
unfortunate change, instead it's likely that the various upstreams are
experiencing a coordination failure.
The responsibility for such coordination lies with Emacs in the end,
not with the users.
> You need to get it working somehow, and then teach it where the
> pkg.m4 file that pkg-config provides is installed, if it cannot
> figure it out itself.
Oh, the irony of it all! given that autoconf and friends are supposed
to do that figuring out, and do it *portably*.[1]
More specifically, from a quick look at configure.ac, it is clear that
program does not consider pkg-config to be a hard requirement of Emacs
(and INSTALL doesn't say so, although INSTALL.REPO does). ISTM that
configure should test for a working pkg-config, and warn the user
about breakage at that point (preferably with useful advice for a
remedy). Blowing up in the middle of a test for an unrelated feature
that happens to use pkg-config is not user-friendly.
A review of configure (trunk updated from bzr today, I assume bzr is
still current?) suggests that Emacs should be buildable with no
pkg-config at all, you'll just be missing a pile of features.
Patches welcome, I know. Sorry, not high on my priority list.
Footnotes:
[1] That's the excuse for the whole insanely complicated mess!
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Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-04 12:01 Trunk r117046 fails on systems with older automake Andy Moreton
2014-05-04 16:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-04 18:02 ` Glenn Morris
2014-05-04 18:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-04 23:01 ` Glenn Morris
2014-05-05 6:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-05 7:00 ` Paul Eggert
2014-05-04 19:28 ` Juanma Barranquero
2014-05-04 19:39 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-05-04 19:51 ` Juanma Barranquero
2014-05-04 20:28 ` Paul Eggert
2014-05-05 6:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-04 21:15 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-05-05 19:08 ` Andy Moreton
2014-05-06 19:47 ` Glenn Morris
2014-05-06 23:53 ` Andy Moreton
2014-05-07 0:04 ` Glenn Morris
2014-05-07 2:00 ` Stephen J. Turnbull [this message]
2014-05-07 2:14 ` Paul Eggert
2014-05-07 2:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-07 4:00 ` Paul Eggert
2014-05-07 15:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-08 0:05 ` Andy Moreton
2014-05-08 2:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-08 8:00 ` Andy Moreton
2014-05-08 15:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-08 15:14 ` Andy Moreton
2014-05-08 15:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-07 9:42 ` Andy Moreton
2014-05-07 10:13 ` martin rudalics
2014-05-07 15:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-07 15:45 ` martin rudalics
2014-05-07 15:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-07 15:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-07 2:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-07 4:48 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-05-07 15:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-07 19:40 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-05-08 2:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-07 6:41 ` Glenn Morris
2014-05-07 7:38 ` David Kastrup
2014-05-07 1:03 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-05-07 2:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-07 11:33 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-05-07 15:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-07 15:38 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-05-07 15:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-07 16:06 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-05-07 2:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-07 14:51 ` Juanma Barranquero
2014-05-07 15:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-07 17:18 ` Juanma Barranquero
2014-05-07 18:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-08 0:25 ` Andy Moreton
2014-05-05 6:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-05 5:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-05 7:29 ` martin rudalics
2014-05-05 9:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-05 9:25 ` martin rudalics
2014-05-05 9:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-05 12:29 ` martin rudalics
2014-05-05 13:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-05 13:26 ` martin rudalics
2014-05-05 13:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-05 6:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-04 17:55 ` Glenn Morris
2014-05-05 22:17 ` Andy Moreton
2014-05-06 20:30 ` Glenn Morris
2014-05-07 6:36 ` Jarek Czekalski
2014-05-07 6:42 ` Glenn Morris
2014-05-07 6:52 ` Jarek Czekalski
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