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: Switch to Automake? Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2015 18:43:22 -0800 Message-ID: <566E2CCA.1050605@cs.ucla.edu> References: <87bn9ueaaw.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1450061032 21202 80.91.229.3 (14 Dec 2015 02:43:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2015 02:43:52 +0000 (UTC) To: Mathieu Lirzin , emacs-devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 14 03:43:43 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1a8J70-0003wv-Tb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Dec 2015 03:43:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57504 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a8J70-0001qw-6X for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 13 Dec 2015 21:43:42 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53877) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a8J6x-0001qp-Hz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Dec 2015 21:43:40 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a8J6u-0000Bp-DF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Dec 2015 21:43:39 -0500 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:45438) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a8J6u-0000Bi-7R; Sun, 13 Dec 2015 21:43:36 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE019160017; Sun, 13 Dec 2015 18:43:34 -0800 (PST) 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 f4yoVex8T8Eu; Sun, 13 Dec 2015 18:43:34 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D8CE1605B8; Sun, 13 Dec 2015 18:43:34 -0800 (PST) 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 pADsxjrFX4Tz; Sun, 13 Dec 2015 18:43:34 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from [192.168.0.101] (pool-100-32-155-148.lsanca.fios.verizon.net [100.32.155.148]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 04A95160017; Sun, 13 Dec 2015 18:43:33 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.4.0 In-Reply-To: <87bn9ueaaw.fsf@gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 131.179.128.68 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:196231 Archived-At: I'd favor switching all the Emacs build procedure (not just lib/) to Automake. If memory serves, there were some objections the last time this came up, but I don't recall what they were. One more thing. Emacs now assumes GNU Make, which should render some Automake features unnecessary, e.g., we already can assume conditional 'make'.