From: Giuseppe Scrivano <gscrivano@gnu.org>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Silence error if globals.h doesn't exist
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2015 13:41:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pp9vm8bj.fsf@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2fvar4b7a.fsf@linux-m68k.org> (Andreas Schwab's message of "Sat, 31 Jan 2015 09:16:09 +0100")
Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:
> Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> writes:
>
>> Andreas Schwab wrote:
>>> That should use move-if-change.
>>
>> No, because move-if-change would remove gl-stamp,
>
> You need to rearrange the rules first, of course. But reimplementing it
> badly is never the right thing to do.
the cost of that would be to use an additional temporary file, right?
The solution with cmp and cp looks cleaner to me.
Regards,
Giuseppe
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-30 16:14 [PATCH] Silence error if globals.h doesn't exist Giuseppe Scrivano
2015-01-30 16:35 ` Andreas Schwab
2015-01-30 18:45 ` Giuseppe Scrivano
2015-01-31 3:32 ` Paul Eggert
2015-01-31 8:16 ` Andreas Schwab
2015-01-31 12:41 ` Giuseppe Scrivano [this message]
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