From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dave Love Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: TODO additions Date: 05 Nov 2002 11:33:17 +0000 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200210291902.g9TJ2AY18220@rum.cs.yale.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1036496852 1604 80.91.224.249 (5 Nov 2002 11:47:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 11:47:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1892B9-0000Pj-00 for ; Tue, 05 Nov 2002 12:47:31 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 1892J8-0001IM-00 for ; Tue, 05 Nov 2002 12:55:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 1892B7-00038c-00; Tue, 05 Nov 2002 06:47:29 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 1891xV-000197-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Nov 2002 06:33:25 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 1891xS-00014n-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Nov 2002 06:33:23 -0500 Original-Received: from albion.dl.ac.uk ([148.79.80.39]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 1891xO-00011A-00; Tue, 05 Nov 2002 06:33:18 -0500 Original-Received: from fx by albion.dl.ac.uk with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1891xN-0005ib-00; Tue, 05 Nov 2002 11:33:17 +0000 Original-To: rms@gnu.org Original-Lines: 27 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:9134 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:9134 Richard Stallman writes: > That would be very difficult. Even if we could have Autoconf figure > out every relevant parameter, and have eliminate the s and m > directories, that would not eliminate the need for preprocessing of > src/Makefile.in. I don't understand why. That's the canonical use of autoconf, and it's clearly more reliable than using a cpp which may not exist. Here's another example of lossage I've just found, from an attempt to build on RedHat 8.0. I've no idea what's going on. creating lib-src/Makefile creating src/Makefile cd lib-src; make all \ CC='gcc' CFLAGS='-g -O2' CPPFLAGS='-D_BSD_SOURCE ' \ LDFLAGS='-L/usr/X11R6/lib' MAKE='make' make[1]: Entering directory `/.automount/pxfs5/root/scr1/fx/emacs-rh/lib-src' gcc -g -O2 -D_BSD_SOURCE -L/usr/X11R6/lib Makefile.c -lc -o Makefile Makefile.c:1:3: invalid preprocessing directive #Makefile [...] $ ls -l src/Ma* -r--r--r-- 1 fx dlpxprog 20069 Nov 5 11:19 src/Makefile -rw-r--r-- 1 fx dlpxprog 42351 Nov 5 11:19 src/Makefile.c