From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Changes in epaths.in Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 03:11:27 -0500 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1326183108 22672 80.91.229.12 (10 Jan 2012 08:11:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 08:11:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 10 09:11:44 2012 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 1RkWo0-00044n-U8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Jan 2012 09:11:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55624 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RkWo0-0004aJ-Ee for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Jan 2012 03:11:40 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:40907) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RkWnw-0004a3-U8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Jan 2012 03:11:37 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RkWnw-00024v-17 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Jan 2012 03:11:36 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:36841) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RkWnv-00024p-SS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Jan 2012 03:11:35 -0500 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RkWno-0004uH-55; Tue, 10 Jan 2012 03:11:28 -0500 X-Spook: Adriatic Bellcore airframe ICE USCOI fissionable condor X-Ran: ?dV$Ozo|j//P*#Nt%eVo|f-2:+fk-3TIa4x?ncjs7NYl*B)7z$OjJ;E;/X%OGl^;OOa>iB X-Hue: magenta X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:31:38 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) 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:147552 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: > Is it really wise to make changes in basic Emacs configuration during > a pretest? E.g., the change to PATH_DUMPLOADSEARCH looks non trivial > to me, and I cannot immediately assess its effects (if you can, I > would suggest to at least put it in writing in the ChangeLog entry). The effects are zero, because those values are not used for anything. Configure changes every one of them to the actual values. The pre-defined values are essentially comments. Of the platforms that do not use configure, MS Windows uses nt/paths.h instead, and the msdos build (presumably) uses sed to edit all the values it cares about. Oh, I see it does not change PATH_DUMPLOADSEARCH, which was the only non-absolute value. sed4.inp should probably set it back to ../lisp. POSIX platforms have been using an absolute value for years (at least a decade I think), so the previous comment about it being ../lisp was misleading.