From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ed Reingold Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: bootstrap from scratch Date: Thu, 05 May 2005 14:10:35 -0500 Message-ID: <200505051910.j45JAZFG002695@emr.cs.iit.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1115320030 16231 80.91.229.6 (5 May 2005 19:07:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 19:07:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 05 21:07:04 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1DTlgd-0005BJ-00 for ; Thu, 05 May 2005 21:07:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DTloB-0004A0-Nm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 May 2005 15:14:51 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DTllu-0003HP-Sy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 May 2005 15:12:30 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DTllt-0003Fv-7R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 May 2005 15:12:29 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DTllt-0003FU-03 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 May 2005 15:12:29 -0400 Original-Received: from [216.47.143.101] (helo=email2.iit.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DTlpK-0006tw-9S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 May 2005 15:16:02 -0400 Original-Received: from emr.cs.iit.edu (emr.cs.iit.edu [216.47.142.126]) by email2.iit.edu (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 Patch 2 (built Jul 14 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IG100C176LQA0@email2.iit.edu> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 May 2005 14:10:38 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from emr.cs.iit.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by emr.cs.iit.edu (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.9) with ESMTP id j45JAZFG002695; Thu, 05 May 2005 14:10:35 -0500 (CDT) In-reply-to: Message from Alan Shutko "of Thu, 05 May 2005 13:42:52 CDT." <87fyx11pm0.fsf@vera.springies.com> Original-To: Alan Shutko X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.0 06/18/2004 with nmh-1.0.4 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:36714 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:36714 > Ed Reingold writes: > > > This is a conundrum: Any value that lets the compilation proceed will > > (necessarily) produce wrong results. Any value that stops the calculation if > > the latitude/longitude/zone are not set will stop compilation. Silly. > > Why does it need to use the latitude and longitude at compilation > time? If we fix that, it doesn't matter what the default is. An excellent question!!