From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: INSTALL-CVS Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2003 14:49:16 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <16086.31800.692970.193443@nick.uklinux.net> <16090.26460.514633.853505@nick.uklinux.net> <200306041806.h54I6L0e026749@rum.cs.yale.edu> <16094.23674.647000.848778@gargle.gargle.HOWL> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1054817760 1930 80.91.224.249 (5 Jun 2003 12:56:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 12:56:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 05 14:55:59 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19NuHe-0000Ux-00 for ; Thu, 05 Jun 2003 14:55:58 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19NuZj-0000Lh-00 for ; Thu, 05 Jun 2003 15:14:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19NuGe-0002Va-Ha for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 05 Jun 2003 08:54:56 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19NuGM-0002UQ-Sf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jun 2003 08:54:38 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19NuFg-0002Cp-Fb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jun 2003 08:53:58 -0400 Original-Received: from ns.suse.de ([213.95.15.193] helo=Cantor.suse.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19NuC8-0001Gm-7K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jun 2003 08:50:16 -0400 Original-Received: from Hermes.suse.de (Hermes.suse.de [213.95.15.136]) by Cantor.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46B5914EDA; Thu, 5 Jun 2003 14:49:18 +0200 (MEST) Original-To: David Masterson X-Yow: Were these parsnips CORRECTLY MARINATED in TACO SAUCE? In-Reply-To: <16094.23674.647000.848778@gargle.gargle.HOWL> (David Masterson's message of "Wed, 4 Jun 2003 13:54:18 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Original-cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:14762 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:14762 David Masterson writes: |> Hmmm. But, since most (all?) 'make' commands only do time-stamp |> checking to determine if a target should be rebuilt, if the rerun of |> configure causes the Makefile(s) to be regen'ed with new or changed |> commands in a target, that target may not be rebuilt because you |> didn't "clean" your environment first. True? Yes, but it almost never matters. |> When you're familiar with the environment (as you are with Emacs), you |> can get away without cleaning your environment first. However, the |> safe approach is to only 'configure' in a clean environment. It has been a long time since I last did a make clean. |> CPU cycles are relatively cheap nowadays... ;-) Why should I waste CPU cycles when I can do more important things with them? Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux AG, Deutschherrnstr. 15-19, D-90429 Nürnberg Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."