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: Builder, a build system integration for Emacs Date: Tue, 23 May 2023 14:18:56 +0300 Message-ID: <83cz2rpa73.fsf@gnu.org> References: <95980ffc-86e7-ad54-4a20-539d8c6ea5d0@mailo.com> <87jzwzh2bm.fsf@posteo.net> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="23659"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: rms@gnu.org, btuin@mailo.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Philip Kaludercic Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue May 23 13:19:43 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 1q1Q3K-0005x2-N6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 23 May 2023 13:19:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1q1Q2P-00038W-BV; Tue, 23 May 2023 07:18:45 -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 1q1Q2M-00037v-42 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 May 2023 07:18:43 -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 1q1Q2K-0008IA-BN; Tue, 23 May 2023 07:18:40 -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=Vz0VpQ2xjRl39PaYtqQy7kHvS4xmfmocn5UD+tvQKGY=; b=VOUzuUUl6Etu RSE9Du5nM+4spBm4ETnXtHdG/75Ot1PT5J9+DBdg+Ysu/yGzg+X8MaKXyGUEf437UMH6Pk5ol4Cwv r7zpZ5vtlFUkJnLKj39vALgQQgmE35gu1X+Ufbf+Ud0UY5rqX0CIb11bU0sV6QD4mKFq617bAxa4r /kZldYfuUA7OT5yS77ZoxxyeZR+QUSPEC8kC71cfGM2s1Q8ZErYx384DCbjnefYUzZsgIQ3eG4Ecj YRHKaIuxr8DDQAKL9k0osLNfgGx/ixpovowWR25nzFWAASY5/YSUBsEnQ4QLd5PS7d/UViILcoDkg PGzkYVYmI5Ekky/eakfG/w==; 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 1q1Q2B-00039m-2R; Tue, 23 May 2023 07:18:33 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87jzwzh2bm.fsf@posteo.net> (message from Philip Kaludercic on Tue, 23 May 2023 08:36:13 +0000) 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:306279 Archived-At: > From: Philip Kaludercic > Cc: BTuin , emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Tue, 23 May 2023 08:36:13 +0000 > > Richard Stallman writes: > > > Isn't "use build systems" what M-x compile does? > > Assuming that each bui;d system provides a shell command to invoke it, > > M-x compile can run that command and build the package. > > The issue is not what M-x compile, but that with a lot of modern > programming languages the build systems are complex but automatable, to > a point that it would be nice if Emacs could detect the necessary > information to invoke the right command or sequence of commands. You mean, to guess a good value for compile-command?