From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: A better autogen.sh Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 06:05:39 +0200 Message-ID: <8362rjr9po.fsf@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> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1300248352 22057 80.91.229.12 (16 Mar 2011 04:05:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 04:05:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 16 05:05:48 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 1PzhzX-0004q4-SV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 05:05:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33189 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PzhzX-0005Db-84 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 00:05:47 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=42947 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PzhzS-00059l-OQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 00:05:43 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PzhzR-0002MW-9z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 00:05:42 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:43005) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PzhzR-0002MR-2L; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 00:05:41 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LI400E00TYJYI00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 06:05:40 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.124.107.218]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LI400EP9U1EM450@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 06:05:40 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <4D7FEF16.7040107@cs.ucla.edu> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 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:137262 Archived-At: > Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 15:58:30 -0700 > From: Paul Eggert > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > On 03/15/2011 03:09 PM, Glenn Morris wrote: > > I cannot remove src/config.in because the MS Windows > > build uses it IIRC. > > MS-DOS, I think. Yes, the MS-DOS port edits config.in into config.h. > But this should not be a problem, as we can move > src/config.in to msdos/config.in and the MS-DOS build can use > msdos/config.in instead. msdos/config.in can start off being a copy > of the old src/config.in but can be maintained by hand, as needed. What would it take to maintain it by hand? > This would lessen the need for tight coupling between the mainline and > the DOS version. What "tight coupling"? > If we can't do something like this, then I don't see the point of > removing 'configure' from the repository. 'configure' and > src/config.in must be kept in sync, and it'd be asking for trouble if > one is in the repository and the other is not. autogen.sh could begin by removing config.in.