From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: A better autogen.sh Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 19:02:37 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <4D82BD3D.1010804@cs.ucla.edu> References: <87y66fv2d3.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4D388F7F.20708@swipnet.se> <87r5c7jk5m.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4D39EF9C.1050804@cs.ucla.edu> <4D3A8666.4070609@cs.ucla.edu> <877hdvd49f.fsf@meyering.net> <83mxmrzhb6.fsf@gnu.org> <4D3C9C5B.8050303@cs.ucla.edu> <20aagvym19.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <4D8123F3.6040309@cs.ucla.edu> <378vwdjxhj.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1300413777 6628 80.91.229.12 (18 Mar 2011 02:02:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 02:02:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 18 03:02:53 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q0P1f-0003d1-Ug for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 03:02:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44578 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q0P1f-0004sD-5X for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Mar 2011 22:02:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=42409 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q0P1a-0004rv-B4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Mar 2011 22:02:47 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q0P1Z-0002Vl-6T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Mar 2011 22:02:46 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.62]:40868) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q0P1Z-0002UH-1E; Thu, 17 Mar 2011 22:02:45 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BF3839E810F; Thu, 17 Mar 2011 19:02:38 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at smtp.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id cMktZumMqb5P; Thu, 17 Mar 2011 19:02:37 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.10] (pool-71-189-109-235.lsanca.fios.verizon.net [71.189.109.235]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6518739E80DB; Thu, 17 Mar 2011 19:02:37 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.14) Gecko/20110223 Thunderbird/3.1.8 In-Reply-To: <378vwdjxhj.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 131.179.128.62 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:137383 Archived-At: On 03/17/2011 01:36 PM, Glenn Morris wrote: > Should the things you propose to move there be in release tarfiles? Yes, they're used during builds. > Because the things I would move to "autogen/" should not (because > releases get "proper" configure etc pre-built), so that might be a > reason to have two separate directories; although of course make-dist > could handle it if both kinds of thing were in the same directory. Sorry, I guess I misunderstood what went into autogen/. In that case perhaps the two directories should be kept distinct.