From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Witness computation - minor breakage in the build system
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 09:51:36 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvfvot1clf.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52D21EFA.1010905@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Sat, 11 Jan 2014 20:50:02 -0800")
>> I think the fixed Makefile code would remain unpleasantly fragile,
>> and the witness-path computation is best moved to the
>> configure stage.
> I've never understood the need for having the last-repository-change
> date affect the build, and would favor removing all the
> vcswitness stuff.
Simple:
- "make autoloads" causes an undesirable re-dump even when no autoload changed.
- for that reason "autoloads" is not in the dependencies and is not
always run.
So the vcswitness is a completely opportunistic hack which forces
a "make autoloads" every once in a while.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-12 14:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-12 4:37 Witness computation - minor breakage in the build system Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-12 4:50 ` Paul Eggert
2014-01-12 5:08 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-12 14:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-12 14:57 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-12 19:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-12 19:45 ` David Kastrup
2014-01-12 19:53 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-01-12 20:07 ` David Kastrup
2014-01-12 15:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-12 14:51 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2014-01-12 15:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-12 19:22 ` Paul Eggert
2014-01-12 19:43 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-12 22:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-12 22:51 ` Paul Eggert
2014-01-13 3:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-13 3:44 ` Paul Eggert
2014-01-13 4:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-13 6:27 ` Paul Eggert
2014-01-13 14:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-12 21:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-12 19:15 ` Glenn Morris
2014-01-13 3:16 ` Glenn Morris
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