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: config.in Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 20:27:58 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87g01vbhzi.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> <1018986015.10524.108.camel@space-ghost> <1676-Wed17Apr2002000044+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> <200204181845.g3IIjUp00524@aztec.santafe.edu> <200204201726.g3KHQZx01297@aztec.santafe.edu> <200204220747.g3M7lOH01938@aztec.santafe.edu> <200204230024.g3N0OJh02336@aztec.santafe.edu> <200204241755.g3OHtJx03370@aztec.santafe.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1019673094 22949 127.0.0.1 (24 Apr 2002 18:31:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 18:31:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 170RYE-0005y2-00 for ; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 20:31:34 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 170Ra1-0001jl-00 for ; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 20:33:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 170RY6-0000fn-00; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 14:31:26 -0400 Original-Received: from ns.suse.de ([213.95.15.193] helo=Cantor.suse.de) by fencepost.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 170RUo-0008LF-00; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 14:28:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Hermes.suse.de (Charybdis.suse.de [213.95.15.201]) by Cantor.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 092B61E943; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 20:28:01 +0200 (MEST) X-Authentication-Warning: sykes.suse.de: schwab set sender to schwab@suse.de using -f Original-To: rms@gnu.org X-Yow: It's strange, but I'm only TRULY ALIVE when I'm covered in POLKA DOTS and TACO SAUCE... In-Reply-To: <200204241755.g3OHtJx03370@aztec.santafe.edu> (Richard Stallman's message of "Wed, 24 Apr 2002 11:55:19 -0600 (MDT)") Original-Lines: 20 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090005 (Oort Gnus v0.05) Emacs/21.2.50 (ia64-suse-linux) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:3205 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:3205 Richard Stallman writes: |> I have now replaced the dependency on configure.in by a variable, which |> can be set to FRC or configure.in to force running autoconf and |> autoheader. |> |> That is a good solution. You can make your .bashrc set the variable, |> so that configure and config.in will always be updated for you. This won't work, because make does not override makefile variable from the environment by default. What people can do, however, is to run `make MAINT=configure.in' when they modify configure.in to get things rebuilt. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE GmbH, Deutschherrnstr. 15-19, D-90429 Nürnberg Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."