From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: A better autogen.sh [was Re: Still unable to build trunk] Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2011 14:51:23 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87y66fv2d3.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4D388F7F.20708@swipnet.se> <87r5c7jk5m.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4D39EF9C.1050804@cs.ucla.edu> <4D3A8666.4070609@cs.ucla.edu> <877hdvd49f.fsf@meyering.net> <83mxmrzhb6.fsf@gnu.org> <4D3C9C5B.8050303@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1299613899 4164 80.91.229.12 (8 Mar 2011 19:51:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 19:51:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 08 20:51:35 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Px2wQ-0006kJ-Q6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2011 20:51:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59551 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Px2wQ-0000wv-CC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2011 14:51:34 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=49960 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Px2wM-0000wq-A1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2011 14:51:31 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Px2wL-0000gP-BL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2011 14:51:30 -0500 Original-Received: from pruche.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.22]:57869) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Px2wJ-0000f6-8v; Tue, 08 Mar 2011 14:51:27 -0500 Original-Received: from faina.iro.umontreal.ca (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by pruche.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id p28JpOtW004237; Tue, 8 Mar 2011 14:51:24 -0500 Original-Received: by faina.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id ADACCB426D; Tue, 8 Mar 2011 14:51:23 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Glenn Morris's message of "Mon, 07 Mar 2011 23:22:15 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV3735=0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 132.204.246.22 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:136913 Archived-At: >> But if people can arrange Emacs's build so that it doesn't require a >> pre-build configure and yet is still easy to install under something >> like Debian stable, I could change my mind. It might even be a good >> change if it can help users figure out which packages need to be >> installed (autotools, header files, ...). > I'm not entirely sure what you want, I'm glad, because I don't either, so otherwise it would be creepy. > but here is an attempt at a hand-holding autogen.sh. Tested on RHEL4 > and 5, Debian testing, and some old version of Solaris. I would also > update INSTALL.BZR. Looks like a good proposal, thanks. > The idea is, people would run autogen.sh the first time they checkout > from bzr. Subsequently, I assume the Makefiles are already correctly > set-up such that eg configure will be recreated if necessary. This might > require enable-maintainer-mode to be on by default in bzr checkouts, and > disabled in release tarfiles; I don't know. That'd be the idea, yes. What do people think of it? Stefan