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: Annoyingly cautious make rules Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2011 15:36:56 -0500 Message-ID: References: <83ehwnc97k.fsf@gnu.org> <4ED917E2.7020807@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1322858233 13511 80.91.229.12 (2 Dec 2011 20:37:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2011 20:37:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , Andreas Schwab , rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 02 21:37:08 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RWZr0-0001rB-EB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Dec 2011 21:37:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55638 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RWZr0-0003JC-1B for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Dec 2011 15:37:06 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:33547) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RWZqx-0003In-No for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Dec 2011 15:37:04 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RWZqw-0001vH-K3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Dec 2011 15:37:03 -0500 Original-Received: from pruche.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.22]:53655) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RWZqu-0001up-Rr; Fri, 02 Dec 2011 15:37:00 -0500 Original-Received: from pastel.home (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by pruche.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id pB2KauL4003373; Fri, 2 Dec 2011 15:36:56 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 7D48658CC3; Fri, 2 Dec 2011 15:36:56 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <4ED917E2.7020807@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Fri, 02 Dec 2011 10:24:34 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.91 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV4059=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.2.0.9286 : core <4059> : streams <707201> : uri <1020553> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 132.204.246.22 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:146441 Archived-At: > Some of this problem comes back the 2011-03-20 patch that added > the autogen subdir. That patch also made --enable-maintainer-mode > the default, which wasn't an integral part of the autogen stuff Actually, I think it is an integral part: the old setup did not need maintainer-mode because the configure file was auto-updated by "cvs/bzr update", but since this file is not under revisions control any more, maintainer-mode is needed to keep the file up to date. > Another part of the problem is that even if I use "configure -C", > "make" sometimes invokes "configure" without -C, which is > reeeeally slow. That needs fixing, then. Stefan "whose office desktop is a Fit-PC2"