From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Shutko Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: bootstrap from scratch Date: Thu, 05 May 2005 13:42:52 -0500 Message-ID: <87fyx11pm0.fsf@vera.springies.com> References: <200505051718.j45HIrFG002303@emr.cs.iit.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1115319981 16039 80.91.229.6 (5 May 2005 19:06:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 19:06:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Ed Reingold Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 05 21:06:14 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1DTlfq-00057Z-00 for ; Thu, 05 May 2005 21:06:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DTlnP-0003p3-2X for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 May 2005 15:14:03 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DTli8-0001mM-3h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 May 2005 15:08:36 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DTlhz-0001ij-JB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 May 2005 15:08:28 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DTlhz-0001b4-6k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 May 2005 15:08:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.249.176.251] (helo=localhost.localdomain) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA:24) (Exim 4.34) id 1DTlhK-0004WU-Hv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 May 2005 15:07:46 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j45J2KRW026196; Thu, 5 May 2005 14:02:22 -0500 Original-Received: (from ats@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j45J2KL8026193; Thu, 5 May 2005 14:02:20 -0500 Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <200505051718.j45HIrFG002303@emr.cs.iit.edu> (Ed Reingold's message of "Thu, 05 May 2005 12:18:53 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) 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:36713 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:36713 Ed Reingold writes: > This is a conundrum: Any value that lets the compilation proceed will > (necessarily) produce wrong results. Any value that stops the calculation if > the latitude/longitude/zone are not set will stop compilation. Silly. Why does it need to use the latitude and longitude at compilation time? If we fix that, it doesn't matter what the default is. -- Alan Shutko - I am the rocks. "City Morgue--you kill 'em, we chill 'em; you stab 'em, we slab 'em!"