From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Android port Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2023 18:26:22 +0300 Message-ID: <835y5tse75.fsf@gnu.org> References: <1428589171.162865.1691134964773@mail1.libero.it> <3473524.ldcX8TXnAK@nimes> <83fs4xslst.fsf@gnu.org> <6358080.k4LH7P0x6x@nimes> <83edkhskyq.fsf@gnu.org> <87jzu97hu2.fsf@yahoo.com> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="29952"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: bruno@clisp.org, angelo.g0@libero.it, eggert@cs.ucla.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Po Lu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 05 17:27:05 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qSJBJ-0007b6-86 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 05 Aug 2023 17:27:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qSJAT-0007ef-Pr; Sat, 05 Aug 2023 11:26:13 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qSJAS-0007e4-IX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Aug 2023 11:26:12 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qSJAQ-0001Hm-Ab; Sat, 05 Aug 2023 11:26:10 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=0medZ/1RxuliSaLXPlSrR1O3WezwtOS/r3SS0KRVYQk=; b=IRjbyuFNI4je 7tux6kt3wrwMmleW/nq3fuzmYxcJrQuEEuiGe0nUk5NS+RUuEBuQTiB3usYEPKPZiHwIXEuLRqKbL 0sZBA3bswEfuCs9/neCgfcjur5RdVRrDQiYOIUD4uiZSHkq8KA6q0Ato2wxxy7viFSaeLy8H4S2XO HhwcE8QLpu5XcJPGo/7ium1vuV4+iAViiq+QsjQnBQw/3IfWctzDBRxpbbOAr+QzBTxBpTF4ufKRw N7zzlWnUKFt9CnYLSj1XSWYSE4CP7YkjzvNfVAXW0U/T9Se1vfvtSfIYOtF9soFuQHviVj5SlwCrG KwkhHPqH3Pv2dysemTJFUg==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qSJAO-00037E-Fd; Sat, 05 Aug 2023 11:26:10 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87jzu97hu2.fsf@yahoo.com> (message from Po Lu on Sat, 05 Aug 2023 21:13:25 +0800) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:308323 Archived-At: > From: Po Lu > Cc: Bruno Haible , angelo.g0@libero.it, > eggert@cs.ucla.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2023 21:13:25 +0800 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > > I prefer not to preset gl_cv_* variables in this case, since they are > > general enough tests of specific printf features, and if those > > features will ever be really needed in Emacs, we want to be alerted to > > that. > > I don't follow this: even if these tests are left intact, how will they > serve to warn us of new dependencies introduced in Emacs? The results > of the configure tests are irrespective of Emacs source code. The results of those tests are logged in config.log. When we preset the variables, the tests are not performed and the results are not recorded anywhere; you just see something like "(cached) yes".