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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: CHECK_STRUCTS/dmpstruct.h mechanism is broken.
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2019 13:19:47 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvimv4skv2.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 480a5ebc-3759-293b-295e-4003dc4107b6@cs.ucla.edu

> I am still of the opinion that this whole thing is a mistake and that
> we should stick with what Emacs 25 and 26 do, as that's simpler and
> will avoid problems such as the one you mention.

Agreed.  We do want Emacs to be buildable without too many contortions
even on rather exotic setups, but that's a far cry from requiring that
we should bear the cost of those exotic setups by striving to
transparently guess what's the right thing to do on those setups.


        Stefan




  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-04-23 17:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 77+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-28 20:21 CHECK_STRUCTS/dmpstruct.h mechanism is broken Alan Mackenzie
2019-02-28 20:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-02-28 20:59 ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-03-01  7:31   ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-01 13:09     ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-03-05  2:17   ` Paul Eggert
2019-04-09 22:47     ` Paul Eggert
2019-04-10 13:12       ` Andy Moreton
2019-04-10 14:59         ` Andy Moreton
2019-04-10 17:36         ` Paul Eggert
2019-04-10 19:26           ` Andy Moreton
2019-04-10 19:43             ` Daniel Colascione
2019-04-10 16:22       ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-04-10 18:05         ` Paul Eggert
2019-04-10 19:45           ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-04-10 20:11             ` Daniel Colascione
2019-04-11  4:11               ` Paul Eggert
2019-04-15 12:36                 ` Andy Moreton
2019-04-15 15:32                   ` Andy Moreton
2019-04-15 15:53                     ` Paul Eggert
2019-04-11 13:13               ` Stefan Monnier
2019-04-11  4:17             ` Paul Eggert
2019-04-10 18:47         ` Daniel Colascione
2019-04-10 18:58           ` Paul Eggert
2019-04-10 19:02             ` Daniel Colascione
2019-04-10 19:22             ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-11  9:35             ` Robert Pluim
2019-04-11 18:31               ` Paul Eggert
2019-04-11 19:15                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-11 22:13                   ` Daniel Colascione
2019-04-12  6:44                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-11 22:23                   ` Paul Eggert
2019-04-11 22:26                     ` Daniel Colascione
2019-04-11 22:38                       ` Paul Eggert
2019-04-12  6:39                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-12 19:40                       ` Paul Eggert
2019-04-13  9:36                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-14  2:52                           ` Paul Eggert
2019-04-12 12:21                     ` Andy Moreton
2019-04-12 13:37                     ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-04-12 13:55                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-12 13:58                       ` Noam Postavsky
2019-04-13 14:06                         ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-04-13 14:46                           ` About ./configure --cache-file (WAS: CHECK_STRUCTS/dmpstruct.h mechanism is broken.) Noam Postavsky
2019-04-14  2:44                             ` Paul Eggert
2019-04-14  3:26                               ` Daniel Colascione
2019-04-14  3:49                                 ` Noam Postavsky
2019-04-14  9:45                               ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-04-14 14:08                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-14 14:44                                   ` Noam Postavsky
2019-04-14 14:53                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-13  8:11                     ` CHECK_STRUCTS/dmpstruct.h mechanism is broken Achim Gratz
2019-04-14  2:52                       ` Paul Eggert
2019-04-14  3:28                         ` Daniel Colascione
2019-04-14  7:22                         ` Achim Gratz
2019-04-14 23:29                           ` Paul Eggert
2019-04-15 11:31                             ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-04-15 14:14                               ` Paul Eggert
2019-04-15 18:11                             ` Richard Stallman
2019-04-16 18:10                               ` Paul Eggert
2019-04-22  2:18                                 ` Richard Stallman
2019-04-22  4:07                                   ` Paul Eggert
2019-04-23  1:41                                     ` Richard Stallman
2019-04-23  3:48                                       ` Paul Eggert
2019-04-23  6:25                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-23 16:28                                           ` Paul Eggert
2019-04-23 17:08                                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-23 17:19                                             ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2019-04-24  2:26                                             ` Richard Stallman
2019-04-15  3:36                         ` Richard Stallman
2019-04-15  5:30                           ` Paul Eggert
2019-04-11 19:55                 ` Achim Gratz
2019-04-11 22:10                   ` Daniel Colascione
2019-04-11 22:47                     ` Paul Eggert
2019-04-11 22:44                   ` Paul Eggert
2019-04-12 17:02                     ` Daniele Nicolodi
2019-04-13  8:26                     ` Achim Gratz

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