From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Trunk r117046 fails on systems with older automake Date: Wed, 07 May 2014 02:41:19 -0400 Message-ID: References: <868uqh4ust.fsf@gmail.com> <83tx95zffo.fsf@gnu.org> <87y4yh72qk.fsf@igel.home> <87tx956y9c.fsf@igel.home> <864n1459hp.fsf@gmail.com> <86tx92v4zi.fsf@gmail.com> <87eh06jqkl.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1399444895 26560 80.91.229.3 (7 May 2014 06:41:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 7 May 2014 06:41:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Andy Moreton , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 07 08:41:30 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WhvXi-0000N8-NU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 May 2014 08:41:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38830 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WhvXi-0008IG-2q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 May 2014 02:41:26 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51222) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WhvXf-0008Hh-1w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 May 2014 02:41:23 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WhvXe-0002GN-8L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 May 2014 02:41:22 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:44779) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WhvXe-0002GI-5J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 May 2014 02:41:22 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WhvXc-0003tY-51; Wed, 07 May 2014 02:41:20 -0400 X-Spook: [Hello to all my friends and fans in domestic X-Ran: J6#_ZU\~rR1Zi&)[-.$c\5v[Jir~K%y'R7"54w^t`d$1i#tk>|{|\;HDo\mB$=OA+,Q8}H X-Hue: cyan X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: <87eh06jqkl.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (Stephen J. Turnbull's message of "Wed, 07 May 2014 11:00:26 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:171741 Archived-At: "Stephen J. Turnbull" wrote: > More specifically, from a quick look at configure.ac, it is clear that > program does not consider pkg-config to be a hard requirement of Emacs > (and INSTALL doesn't say so, although INSTALL.REPO does). It isn't a requirement, the INSTALL docs are correct. It is like autoconf and automake: required for builds from the repo, but not from tarballs. As documented. > A review of configure (trunk updated from bzr today, I assume bzr is > still current?) suggests that Emacs should be buildable with no > pkg-config at all, you'll just be missing a pile of features. Emacs tarballs are buildable without pkg-config. It is required to generate the configure script, like autoconf is. > Patches welcome, I know. Sorry, not high on my priority list. Don't worry, I have zero expectation of you ever supplying a patch for anything.