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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Witness computation - minor breakage in the build system
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 20:53:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r48dgeo4.fsf@igel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d2jxc7bs.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (David Kastrup's message of "Sun, 12 Jan 2014 20:45:43 +0100")

David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:

> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>
>>> The benefit is that a deoendency on the VCS goes away.
>>
>> I don't see that should be considered as a benefit.
>
> Well, the whole point of the GPL and the delivered source tar balls is
> to give the user the ability to make his own changes.  If the Makefile
> dependencies don't work when making changes to the source from a
> tarball, it does not look much like a source tarball.

I don't think you can put that much into it.  You can alway run `make -C
lisp autoloads' manually to update loaddefs.el.

Andreas.

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-12 19:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-12  4:37 Witness computation - minor breakage in the build system Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-12  4:50 ` Paul Eggert
2014-01-12  5:08   ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-12 14:52     ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-12 14:57       ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-12 19:36         ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-12 19:45           ` David Kastrup
2014-01-12 19:53             ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2014-01-12 20:07               ` David Kastrup
2014-01-12 15:57     ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-12 14:51   ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-12 15:56   ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-12 19:22     ` Paul Eggert
2014-01-12 19:43       ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-12 22:29         ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-12 22:51           ` Paul Eggert
2014-01-13  3:14             ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-13  3:44               ` Paul Eggert
2014-01-13  4:16                 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-13  6:27                   ` Paul Eggert
2014-01-13 14:06                     ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-12 21:01       ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-12 19:15   ` Glenn Morris
2014-01-13  3:16 ` Glenn Morris

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