From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Karl Fogel Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs in CVS as today does not build - emacs depends on *.elc, which cannot be built without emacs Date: 01 Nov 2002 20:37:29 -0600 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <87wunw4ryu.fsf@floss.red-bean.com> References: <3DC140C2.6000306@biobase.dk> <3DC15922.9050108@biobase.dk> Reply-To: kfogel@collab.net NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1036219523 7459 80.91.224.249 (2 Nov 2002 06:45:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2002 06:45:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: schwab@suse.de, tra@biobase.dk, emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 187s26-0001wA-00 for ; Sat, 02 Nov 2002 07:45:22 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 187s8W-0005l7-00 for ; Sat, 02 Nov 2002 07:52:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 187rzY-0005gK-00; Sat, 02 Nov 2002 01:42:44 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 187rnt-0001zU-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Nov 2002 01:30:41 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 187rno-0001xO-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Nov 2002 01:30:39 -0500 Original-Received: from mailhost1-chcgil.chcgil.ameritech.net ([206.141.192.67] helo=mailhost.chi1.ameritech.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 187rni-0001uY-00; Sat, 02 Nov 2002 01:30:30 -0500 Original-Received: from floss.red-bean.com ([64.109.254.165]) by mailhost.chi1.ameritech.net (InterMail vM.4.01.02.17 201-229-119) with ESMTP id <20021102063024.KMDH24670.mailhost.chi1.ameritech.net@floss.red-bean.com>; Sat, 2 Nov 2002 00:30:24 -0600 Original-Received: from kfogel by floss.red-bean.com with local (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 187oAD-0006ZS-00; Fri, 01 Nov 2002 20:37:29 -0600 Original-To: rms@gnu.org Emacs: where editing text is like playing Paganini on a glass harmonica. In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 10 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:9067 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:9067 Richard Stallman writes: > Many projects require you to run something like autogen.sh before you can > build from CVS. > > Is that a semi-standard convention? If so, maybe Emacs should follow > the convention, maybe we should add that script. It seems to be at least semi-standard now, yes. -Karl