From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: cabo@informatik.uni-bremen.de (Dr. Carsten Bormann) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Deliberate breaking of bootstrapping in locals.texi Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2004 21:30:47 +0100 Message-ID: References: <200411272025.iARKPRN11519@raven.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1102192312 11171 80.91.229.6 (4 Dec 2004 20:31:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2004 20:31:52 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 04 21:31:47 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CagZH-0001Ss-00 for ; Sat, 04 Dec 2004 21:31:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1Cagiw-00022q-Gm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 04 Dec 2004 15:41:46 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1Cagib-00022h-Ta for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Dec 2004 15:41:25 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1Cagia-00022B-Rk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Dec 2004 15:41:25 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1Cagia-000221-My for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Dec 2004 15:41:24 -0500 Original-Received: from [134.102.224.4] (helo=informatik.uni-bremen.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1CagYf-0004dS-6J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Dec 2004 15:31:09 -0500 Original-Received: from sagwa.local.informatik.uni-bremen.de (imh [134.102.224.4]) by informatik.uni-bremen.de (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id iB4KUpPS019777; Sat, 4 Dec 2004 21:30:53 +0100 (MET) X-Mailer: emacs 21.3.50.1 (via feedmail 8 I) Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Luc Teirlinck In-Reply-To: <200411272025.iARKPRN11519@raven.dms.auburn.edu> (Luc Teirlinck's message of "Sat, 27 Nov 2004 14:25:27 -0600 (CST)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (darwin) X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS/Sophos at informatik.uni-bremen.de 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: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:30675 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:30675 Luc Teirlinck writes: > But people might actually want to bootstrap. Those not familiar with > Texinfo might not know that all they have to do to enable > bootstrapping is comment out those two deliberate errors. Using a build engine like darwinports, there isn't even a good way to fix these lines before building. I'm surprised that it is acceptable at all to "break the build", and to maintain this state (for a week now). Gruesse, Carsten