From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: New build process? Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 12:14:45 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20110726184220.GA6390@acm.acm> <87bowg6fre.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <4E2F2084.7070001@gmail.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1311783302 4922 80.91.229.12 (27 Jul 2011 16:15:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 16:15:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: david.reitter@gmail.com, theophilusx@gmail.com, dan.colascione@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 27 18:14:55 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 1Qm6l1-0006FE-QW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 18:14:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39032 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qm6l1-0008Kv-3b for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 12:14:51 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:44945) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qm6kx-0008KQ-Hg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 12:14:49 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qm6kw-0007c4-K7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 12:14:47 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:35537) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qm6kw-0007c0-IX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 12:14:46 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qm6kv-0000OK-LQ; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 12:14:45 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Eli Zaretskii on Wed, 27 Jul 2011 06:03:54 -0400) 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:142398 Archived-At: I'm actually with Richard on this one. I think the need to install, update, and use any additional commands before "./configure; make" is a nuisance whose justification is questionable at best. It's just that I gave up on talking people into catering to us dinosaurs whose paradise was lost, and Richard is still trying, because he's a better man than I am. It ought to be a simple job for someone who is fully familiar with the current build mechanism. The hardest part is to change the name of the automatically-generated configuration file, because that change may need to be made in a few places. Once that's done, I'd expect the new configure file to be less than 20 lines. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use free telephony http://directory.fsf.org/category/tel/