From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: A better autogen.sh Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 00:14:35 -0400 Message-ID: <4hk4fzsnv8.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> 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> <4D7FDFB0.6020203@cs.ucla.edu> <4D7FEF16.7040107@cs.ucla.edu> <8362rjr9po.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1300248891 24353 80.91.229.12 (16 Mar 2011 04:14:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 04:14:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Paul Eggert , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 16 05:14:46 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 1Pzi8B-00076V-SK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 05:14:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42531 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pzi8B-0000z4-Ah for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 00:14:43 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=60084 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pzi86-0000uj-2g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 00:14:39 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pzi85-0003Wd-13 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 00:14:37 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:45950) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pzi84-0003WZ-Vp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 00:14:36 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40500) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pzi83-0007jv-KI; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 00:14:35 -0400 X-Spook: munitions Janet Reno 2600 Magazine Steve Case freedom X-Ran: i`VU+~J=SU)]:vnMNrR(x"<[l<,sf_F0;zKK)gk4UOI'0frKy{Iitvu;Y-.4xspzf1?bMu X-Hue: magenta X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: <8362rjr9po.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 16 Mar 2011 06:05:39 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.10 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:137263 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: > What would it take to maintain it by hand? mv src/config.in msdos/config.in, change config.bat to look in the new place, you update the version of msdos/config.in in the repo whenever you think it is needed, by simply copying your src/ version there. (This seems to be how the MS Windows port works?) > autogen.sh could begin by removing config.in. That's a big ugly, I hope the previous solution is acceptable to you.