From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: master has switched from Automake to GNU Make Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 14:33:44 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <1e5e3b16-00a3-f483-a533-811bcabf6de8@cs.ucla.edu> References: <58CB9F6B.5080806@gmx.at> <83h92sz2j9.fsf@gnu.org> <58CBAEB7.5030601@gmx.at> <58CBBC6C.8000104@gmx.at> <83var7yaaf.fsf@gnu.org> <83tw6ry95e.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1489786474 8695 195.159.176.226 (17 Mar 2017 21:34:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 21:34:34 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.8.0 Cc: rudalics@gmx.at, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 17 22:34:28 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cozVt-0000wt-Hh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Mar 2017 22:34:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50908 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cozVz-0007Fy-Fb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Mar 2017 17:34:27 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40689) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cozVR-0007Fs-GA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Mar 2017 17:33:54 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cozVQ-0008VA-QX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Mar 2017 17:33:53 -0400 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:38760) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cozVM-0008US-43; Fri, 17 Mar 2017 17:33:48 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 081C7160071; Fri, 17 Mar 2017 14:33:46 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id QHaBhakA6IhL; Fri, 17 Mar 2017 14:33:45 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 336FB16007A; Fri, 17 Mar 2017 14:33:45 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id NXYvl_iw21oH; Fri, 17 Mar 2017 14:33:45 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU (Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU [131.179.64.200]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 15606160071; Fri, 17 Mar 2017 14:33:45 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <83tw6ry95e.fsf@gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 131.179.128.68 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:213099 Archived-At: On 03/17/2017 12:51 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > How about something like this instead: > > You can now run './autogen.sh git' or './configure'. That would add complexity to a process that is already overly complicated. Plus, at that point there are other plausible things to do (i.e., other than './autogen.sh git' and './configure'); why list just those two possibilities? Better would be to have plain './autogen.sh' default './autogen.sh all' instead of to './autogen.sh autoconf', so that the trailing message would simply say: You can now run './configure'. That way, developers ordinarily wouldn't need to worry about running './autogen.sh git'. The rare developers who prefer unusual Git settings could use './autogen.sh autoconf' instead of plain './autogen.sh', or they could run plain './autogen.sh' and then apply their preferred settings atop the standard settings.