From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: CHECK_STRUCTS/dmpstruct.h mechanism is broken. Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2019 13:19:47 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20190228202146.GC4686@ACM> <20190410162203.GA4009@ACM> <9809d5ce-c1c4-48e9-6dac-489431b34067@cs.ucla.edu> <671ba8dd-894b-5698-d162-8901b1098b9a@cs.ucla.edu> <83k1g04al8.fsf@gnu.org> <93b861b3-41d2-e590-d4b8-46a4bb64bfe8@cs.ucla.edu> <8736mmxr2e.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <87h8b1yrsi.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <17e9662c-6a4a-b66d-f573-4c2cdc9756be@cs.ucla.edu> <835zr55jco.fsf@gnu.org> <480a5ebc-3759-293b-295e-4003dc4107b6@cs.ucla.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="99978"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 23 19:26:37 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hIzBi-000Pnc-Di for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Apr 2019 19:26:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57131 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hIzBh-0004hn-Bn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Apr 2019 13:26:33 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:40007) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hIz5R-00088f-Ok for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Apr 2019 13:20:06 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hIz5M-000179-42 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Apr 2019 13:20:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=42216 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hIz5K-00014A-8W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Apr 2019 13:19:59 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hIz5E-000H2R-SA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Apr 2019 19:19:52 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:E5W5ZFhhfdJuuSiX1YTRA/WU9Qs= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:235834 Archived-At: > 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