From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why <config.h> and not "config.h" ?
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:26:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvzkxabc1n.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y6cwz6bq.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (Miles Bader's message of "Wed, 28 Jul 2010 11:30:17 +0900")
> I think this was discussed recently, and I seem to recall that the
> reason given was that "config.h" doesn't work if the user tries to build
> with an out-of-tree object directory _after_ having previously built in
> the source tree (without an intervening "make distclean" in the source
> dir).
Actually, I'd be happy to have a recipe to reproduce the problem.
This way we can fix it in the Makefile, so that the choice between the
two becomes "irrelevant", rather than being based on "avoid a poorly
understood problem in some rare corner case".
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-29 14:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-28 2:23 Why <config.h> and not "config.h" ? Óscar Fuentes
2010-07-28 2:30 ` Miles Bader
2010-07-28 3:25 ` Óscar Fuentes
2010-07-28 6:30 ` Jan Djärv
2010-07-28 6:46 ` Óscar Fuentes
2010-07-28 7:06 ` Jan Djärv
2010-07-28 7:35 ` Óscar Fuentes
2010-07-28 7:57 ` Jan Djärv
2010-07-28 8:04 ` immanuel litzroth
2010-07-28 8:19 ` Jan Djärv
2010-07-28 9:38 ` Óscar Fuentes
2010-07-28 10:07 ` Óscar Fuentes
2010-07-28 8:29 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-07-28 8:59 ` Óscar Fuentes
2010-07-29 14:26 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2010-07-30 9:21 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-07-30 9:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-08-01 9:31 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-07-28 7:06 ` Andreas Röhler
2010-07-28 7:10 ` Óscar Fuentes
2010-07-28 7:15 ` Yavor Doganov
2010-07-28 7:46 ` Óscar Fuentes
2010-07-28 19:50 ` Dan Nicolaescu
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