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: Files in build-aux Date: Tue, 04 May 2021 21:40:41 +0300 Message-ID: <83a6pa4a1i.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83pmy763zi.fsf@gnu.org> <878s4vtygd.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <83mttb62mo.fsf@gnu.org> <87k0ofmvid.fsf@igel.home> <83h7ji682w.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="33424"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: eric@ericabrahamsen.net, p.stephani2@gmail.com, schwab@linux-m68k.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: alan@idiocy.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue May 04 20:42:33 2021 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 1le008-0008be-SR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 04 May 2021 20:42:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34322 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1le007-0006UU-Ue for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 04 May 2021 14:42:31 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:38970) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ldzyd-0005mn-Ho for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 May 2021 14:40:59 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:57695) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ldzyb-0004d9-TC; Tue, 04 May 2021 14:40:57 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:2478 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ldzyY-0002LU-7M; Tue, 04 May 2021 14:40:57 -0400 In-Reply-To: <83h7ji682w.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Tue, 04 May 2021 14:40:07 +0300) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:268887 Archived-At: > Date: Tue, 04 May 2021 14:40:07 +0300 > From: Eli Zaretskii > Cc: eric@ericabrahamsen.net, p.stephani2@gmail.com, schwab@linux-m68k.org, > emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > Looks like it's autoreconf in autogen.sh:258. If I run > > > > autoreconf -fi -I m4 > > > > it updates the two files. I'm using autoconf 2.71. > > So I guess we need to look for autoreconf switches that prevent it > from updating these files, and use them in our builds? I don't see such switches. It looks like this is a "feature", and cannot be turned off. It is triggered by the -f command-line option. Unless we can do without -f, someone should talk to Autoconf developers and ask them for a workaround. Alternatively, downgrade to an older Autoconf.