From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Reitter Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: New build process? Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 16:00:48 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20110726184220.GA6390@acm.acm> <87bowg6fre.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1084) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1311710469 12941 80.91.229.12 (26 Jul 2011 20:01:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 20:01:09 +0000 (UTC) To: Emacs devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 26 22:01:05 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 1QlnoO-0005cj-WC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Jul 2011 22:01:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56962 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QlnoJ-0003of-HP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Jul 2011 16:00:59 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:41327) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QlnoH-0003oG-At for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Jul 2011 16:00:58 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QlnoC-0000Fy-Po for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Jul 2011 16:00:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-iy0-f169.google.com ([209.85.210.169]:44911) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QlnoC-0000FY-Da for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Jul 2011 16:00:52 -0400 Original-Received: by iyb14 with SMTP id 14so1179019iyb.0 for ; Tue, 26 Jul 2011 13:00:51 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=content-type:mime-version:subject:from:in-reply-to:date :content-transfer-encoding:message-id:references:to:x-mailer; bh=hPGbGQjcjiUKLMsPG0LFj4j3bHHu9yxf5wyhREL/zTs=; b=jCTYLLli9XvMztkRR5Zs/I8/ouDNcdKC0k38tun+WblxovXhDvICdbGBeZuCNqbEHM rr0LZ1pzirNYlkMmLlyKMMmupGk+WPYx/CbpLbDS22wM5sKWONf9ziit+HDSNnXRydtm b2AoIuPm2v8ms66hNz7LjNYQTSF28y2dkyfBI= Original-Received: by 10.231.112.93 with SMTP id v29mr6125805ibp.133.1311710450859; Tue, 26 Jul 2011 13:00:50 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from elin.andrew.cmu.edu (ELIN.ANDREW.CMU.EDU [128.2.46.20]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id v16sm537421ibe.17.2011.07.26.13.00.49 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 26 Jul 2011 13:00:50 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87bowg6fre.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1084) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 209.85.210.169 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:142318 Archived-At: On Jul 26, 2011, at 2:47 PM, David Kastrup wrote: >>=20 >> I don't seem to be able to find instructions about this, and I = haven't >> found anything relevant and recent in the emacs-devel archive. Help, >> please! >=20 > INSTALL.BZR Suggest changing the name of this file. Not everybody gets the source = code via Bazaar. When these inconvenient changes happened, I got caught = out like Alan Mackenzie, since I wouldn't think of reading this file. Better yet, include a configure script that calls autogen.sh and then = runs itself. If people consider this an inconvenience w.r.t. the = version control tool, then perhaps autogen.sh could generate = configure.local instead. As others have said here, people expect to be able to do ./configure; = make install.=