From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: New build process? Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 14:46:40 +0200 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <87tya6609b.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <20110726184220.GA6390@acm.acm> <87bowg6fre.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <4E2F2084.7070001@gmail.com> <87zkjzzv21.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <4E315807.5070703@harpegolden.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1311857225 3056 80.91.229.12 (28 Jul 2011 12:47:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 12:47:05 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 28 14:47:02 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QmPzR-0002Tn-AI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 14:47:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42727 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QmPzQ-0003Yf-NP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 08:47:00 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:53856) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QmPzO-0003Y1-Em for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 08:46:59 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QmPzN-0002kJ-9z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 08:46:58 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:53971) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QmPzN-0002kD-4g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 08:46:57 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QmPzI-0002O9-1K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 14:46:52 +0200 Original-Received: from p508ea94d.dip.t-dialin.net ([80.142.169.77]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 14:46:52 +0200 Original-Received: from dak by p508ea94d.dip.t-dialin.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 14:46:52 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p508ea94d.dip.t-dialin.net X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:WPLbmvykkZSRQ472U0Z2pwlSkX8= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 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:142448 Archived-At: David De La Harpe Golden writes: > On 27/07/11 14:56, David Kastrup wrote: > > >> The build process _is_ simple. The question is more about it being >> discoverable. Adding two sentences to INSTALL in the line of >> >> These are the installation instructions for compiling Emacs from a >> distribution tarball. If you are working from a Bazaar checkout, >> please refer to INSTALL.BZR. >> > > Note INSTALL does already say, right near the top: > > """ > For information about building from a Bazaar checkout > (rather than a release), also read the file INSTALL.BZR. > """ I honestly did not look. So we can chalk this discussion off as "Alan's fault" and find something else to worry about. -- David Kastrup