From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: New build process? Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 01:08:56 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20110726184220.GA6390@acm.acm> <87bowg6fre.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <4E2F2084.7070001@gmail.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1311743360 23665 80.91.229.12 (27 Jul 2011 05:09:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 05:09:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: david.reitter@gmail.com, dan.colascione@gmail.com, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Tim Cross Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 27 07:09:15 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 1QlwMt-0004tA-EM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 07:09:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34245 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QlwMo-0006lV-1R for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 01:09:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:34640) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QlwMl-0006lF-9q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 01:09:08 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QlwMg-0003us-En for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 01:09:07 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:40227) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QlwMg-0003uo-DJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 01:09:02 -0400 Original-Received: from eliz by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QlwMa-0000og-3K; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 01:08:56 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Tim Cross on Wed, 27 Jul 2011 13:40:03 +1000) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.10 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:142341 Archived-At: > Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 13:40:03 +1000 > From: Tim Cross > Cc: david.reitter@gmail.com, Daniel Colascione , > emacs-devel@gnu.org > > As far back as I can remember, emacs > sources from the version control repository had an additional step > that had to be completed ini order to generate the configure script. I guess your memory is either faulty or doesn't go back far enough. Because configure was removed from the Emacs repository only 4 months ago (on 2011-03-20, see the logs). > The real issue here is whether INSTALL.BZR is an appropriate name for > the information that alerts people that you need to take extra steps > when building form sources taken from the version control repository. We had INSTALL.CVS when the VC was CVS, and I don't remember any complaints.