From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Release of CC Mode 5.31 Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2005 00:41:28 +0200 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1133995366 8971 80.91.229.2 (7 Dec 2005 22:42:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 22:42:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: mast@lysator.liu.se, romain@orebokech.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, bug-cc-mode@gnu.org, acm@muc.de, henrik.enberg@telia.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 07 23:42:43 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ek7z7-0002xy-Op for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Dec 2005 23:42:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ek7zN-000065-ON for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Dec 2005 17:42:17 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ek7zB-00005q-Ll for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Dec 2005 17:42:05 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ek7zB-00005d-7N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Dec 2005 17:42:05 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ek7zB-00005Y-3m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Dec 2005 17:42:05 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.17] (helo=gandalf.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Ek803-0008R7-DW; Wed, 07 Dec 2005 17:42:59 -0500 Original-Received: from nitzan.inter.net.il (nitzan.inter.net.il [192.114.186.20]) by gandalf.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.1-GA) with ESMTP id HET07333; Thu, 8 Dec 2005 00:41:30 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-80-230-148-17.inter.net.il [80.230.148.17]) by nitzan.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.2-GA) with ESMTP id CDY20983 (AUTH halo1); Thu, 8 Dec 2005 00:41:28 +0200 (IST) Original-To: Stefan Monnier In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Wed, 07 Dec 2005 14:51:22 -0500) 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: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:47163 Archived-At: > Cc: rms@gnu.org, mast@lysator.liu.se, romain@orebokech.com, > emacs-devel@gnu.org, bug-cc-mode@gnu.org, henrik.enberg@telia.com, > acm@muc.de > From: Stefan Monnier > Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 14:51:22 -0500 > > > I thought about some Make magic, like making some of the *.elc files > > dependent on some other *.elc files which need to be compiled first. > > (We already have COMPILE_FIRST files that work around similar > > problems.) Is there any reason why this wouldn't work? > > That would work. It'd be even better to generate this dependency info > automatically. Ideally, the byte-compiler would keep track of which macros > are used, so that it can automatically generate exact > dependency information. WIBNI we had something like "gcc -MM"? > Note that e.g. if we change the dolist macro, it's not enough to recompile > subr.el before the other files, since we also need to redump the executable > after recompiling subr.el. Well, yeah, I know that there are hard cases where even Make will be unable to help. But I think there's a lot to be done before we get there.