From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Checkout of Emacs CVS through firewall Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 23:19:17 +0900 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <20040612050512.6892.LEKTU@mi.madritel.es> <20040612044446.GA3631@fencepost> <20040612144928.1523.LEKTU@mi.madritel.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1087050427 5672 80.91.224.253 (12 Jun 2004 14:27:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 14:27:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Miles Bader , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 12 16:26:59 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BZ9TH-0000V0-00 for ; Sat, 12 Jun 2004 16:26:59 +0200 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BZ9TH-0000HW-00 for ; Sat, 12 Jun 2004 16:26:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BZ9U4-0006LA-86 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sat, 12 Jun 2004 10:27:48 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BZ9Tw-0006Ku-AD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Jun 2004 10:27:40 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BZ9Tv-0006KU-Gl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Jun 2004 10:27:39 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BZ9Tv-0006KR-EN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Jun 2004 10:27:39 -0400 Original-Received: from [209.61.173.204] (helo=integrasp.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BZ9T0-0004Ma-8S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Jun 2004 10:26:42 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 1185 invoked from network); 12 Jun 2004 14:03:56 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO NYAUMO) (218.145.161.20) by 66.216.96.43 with SMTP; 12 Jun 2004 14:03:56 -0000 Original-To: Juanma Barranquero In-Reply-To: <20040612144928.1523.LEKTU@mi.madritel.es> (Juanma Barranquero's message of "Sat, 12 Jun 2004 14:55:00 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (windows-nt) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:24877 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:24877 Juanma Barranquero writes: > From revision 1.1, nt/configure.bat has had: > > if not exist ..\lisp\Makefile.unix rename ..\lisp\Makefile Makefile.unix > > In 1.5, Eli changed it to > > if not exist ..\lisp\Makefile.unix rename ..\lisp\Makefile.in Makefile.unix > > Curiously, the log says: "Don't copy lisp/Makefile, it doesn't exist; > copy lisp/Makefile.in instead." I think that change was a mistake. The intention of that line seems to me to be to make a backup of the makefile before overwriting it, in case the user uses a dual-boot or networked drive for the source tree and wants to recover the unix makefile without reconfiguring after building the Windows version.