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: Wed, 04 Jun 2003 13:38:55 +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> 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 1054727746 20206 80.91.224.249 (4 Jun 2003 11:55:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 11:55:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 04 13:55:42 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 19NWrm-0005Fa-00 for ; Wed, 04 Jun 2003 13:55:42 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19NX9L-0002M3-00 for ; Wed, 04 Jun 2003 14:13:51 +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 19NWrY-000526-38 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Wed, 04 Jun 2003 07:55:28 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19NWr0-0004zy-FT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Jun 2003 07:54:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19NWdX-0008U4-Pu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Jun 2003 07:41:01 -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 19NWbY-0007pQ-SJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Jun 2003 07:38:57 -0400 Original-Received: from Hermes.suse.de (Hermes.suse.de [213.95.15.136]) by Cantor.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67B4014354; Wed, 4 Jun 2003 13:38:56 +0200 (MEST) Original-To: David Masterson X-Yow: If our behavior is strict, we do not need fun! In-Reply-To: (David Masterson's message of "02 Jun 2003 23:54:39 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) 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:14683 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:14683 David Masterson writes: |> >>>>> Richard Stallman writes: |> |> > However, I guess it would be harmless now to change it so that |> > top-level `make all' updates the Info files but does not generate |> > the DVI files. |> |> Suggestion -- have the configure script 'touch' the Info files as the |> last thing it does if and only if they exist at the time of the |> 'configure'. This is counter-productive, because then if you rerun configure when the info files are out-of-date they won't be rebuilt. 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."