From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman 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: Sun, 03 Nov 2002 08:56:53 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <3DC140C2.6000306@biobase.dk> <3DC15922.9050108@biobase.dk> <87wunw4ryu.fsf@floss.red-bean.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1036332832 21500 80.91.224.249 (3 Nov 2002 14:13:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2002 14:13:52 +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 188LVe-0005aU-00 for ; Sun, 03 Nov 2002 15:13:50 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 188Lci-0006hJ-00 for ; Sun, 03 Nov 2002 15:21:08 +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 188LWV-0006uj-00; Sun, 03 Nov 2002 09:14:43 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 188LFK-0004qM-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Nov 2002 08:56:58 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 188LFG-0004mr-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Nov 2002 08:56:56 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 188LFG-0004ml-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Nov 2002 08:56:54 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.10) id 188LFF-0003A4-00; Sun, 03 Nov 2002 08:56:53 -0500 Original-To: kfogel@collab.net In-reply-to: <87wunw4ryu.fsf@floss.red-bean.com> (message from Karl Fogel on 01 Nov 2002 20:37:29 -0600) 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:9087 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:9087 > 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. Can you write such a script for Emacs?