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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: julien@danjou.info, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: configure{.in,} question
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 15:59:19 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvfwvum4ei.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xk1v7edsoz.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (Glenn Morris's message of "Mon, 25 Oct 2010 14:37:48 -0400")

>>> I often end up with problems because of configure and
>>> src/config.in.
>> Including with bzr?  What problems are those?
> If you run autoconf locally (which I think is good practice), and you
> did not use the same version as the person who last committed
> configure, you WILL get a conflict when you update. Eg

Indeed.

>> a feature on the Bazaar list.  If you get lucky, you could have a POC
>> plugin in a matter of days.
> But we cannot make everyone who checks out Emacs from bzr use said
> plugin.

Actually, maybe for those files, we could use a merge-helper that just
says "use the most recent file".  Of course, since merge helpers are
plugins, that still depends on whether such a merge helper is or will
be included in Bzr proper.


        Stefan



  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-25 19:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-24 17:31 configure{.in,} question Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-24 19:38 ` Glenn Morris
2010-10-24 19:56   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-24 20:07     ` Glenn Morris
2010-10-25  0:57       ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-10-25  8:38         ` Andreas Schwab
2010-10-25 14:43           ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-10-25 14:58             ` Andreas Schwab
2010-10-25 15:41               ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-10-25  8:47       ` Julien Danjou
2010-10-25  9:00         ` Andreas Schwab
2010-10-25  9:15         ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-10-25 16:06           ` Stefan Monnier
2010-10-25 18:04             ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-10-25 18:37               ` Glenn Morris
2010-10-25 19:59                 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2010-10-25 19:34               ` Stefan Monnier
2010-10-25 16:43           ` Glenn Morris
2010-10-25 19:11 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-10-25 19:13   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-25 19:16     ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-10-25 20:08       ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

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