From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Trunk r117046 fails on systems with older automake Date: Thu, 08 May 2014 04:40:07 +0900 Message-ID: <87lhudidig.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <868uqh4ust.fsf@gmail.com> <83tx95zffo.fsf@gnu.org> <87y4yh72qk.fsf@igel.home> <87tx956y9c.fsf@igel.home> <864n1459hp.fsf@gmail.com> <86tx92v4zi.fsf@gmail.com> <87eh06jqkl.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <8361lixpmg.fsf@gnu.org> <87y4yei47w.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <831tw5y6h2.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1399491650 8595 80.91.229.3 (7 May 2014 19:40:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 7 May 2014 19:40:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: andrewjmoreton@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 07 21:40:42 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Wi7hn-0000gh-6E for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 May 2014 21:40:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43384 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wi7hm-0006fp-6K for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 May 2014 15:40:38 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46908) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wi7hX-0006fO-8z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 May 2014 15:40:30 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wi7hR-0006tA-CB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 May 2014 15:40:23 -0400 Original-Received: from mgmt2.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.224]:54450) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wi7hK-0006qV-Pr; Wed, 07 May 2014 15:40:11 -0400 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mgmt2.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6ED37970B1E; Thu, 8 May 2014 04:40:07 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5B0131A271D; Thu, 8 May 2014 04:40:07 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: <831tw5y6h2.fsf@gnu.org> X-Mailer: VM undefined under 21.5 (beta34) "kale" 2a0f42961ed4 XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 130.158.97.224 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:171768 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: > > From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" > > No problem there, since I'm sure there are packaged pkg-configs. > > How do you mean "packaged"? They are just *.zip archives (not that it > isn't enough, IMO). I mean cd to the right place, unzip, and you're ready to run. > > > and making sure its pkg.m4 file is in the directory where aclocal > > > looks for such files. > > > > That's the kind of thing that shouldn't be necessary IMO. > > It cannot be avoided on Windows, because one needs to have 2 > Posix-like trees: one for MSYS and another one for native MinGW > programs. So? If you need two copies of pkg-config, install twice. If you don't, there should be an explanation of how to install it and then copy/mv pkg.m4 so that the caller that needs it can find it. It shouldn't be Andrew's or anybody else's problem to figure these things out (unless they have installed them already someplace other than where README.NT or whatever is appropriate suggests). Or, if there are no such instructions and you can't make time for a while, ask *one* of those people to share their experience of creating such an installation and add it to the appropriate README. These folks are all good citizens, I recognize their names. They just don't want to do redundant work to find out how to set things up if somebody already knows how.