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: configure re-run each time version.el changes Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 22:45:47 +0200 Message-ID: <83mw7th5ok.fsf@gnu.org> References: <834mu2jmm7.fsf@gnu.org> <54665EAB.6050805@cs.ucla.edu> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1415997993 3284 80.91.229.3 (14 Nov 2014 20:46:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 20:46:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: schwab@linux-m68k.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 14 21:46:27 2014 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 1XpNlD-0008H5-BC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Nov 2014 21:46:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37819 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XpNlC-0005LW-Vd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Nov 2014 15:46:26 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38783) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XpNkw-0005LE-AS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Nov 2014 15:46:15 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XpNkr-0002TS-FR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Nov 2014 15:46:10 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:62158) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XpNkr-0002TJ-7x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Nov 2014 15:46:05 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NF100C00QA3R400@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Nov 2014 22:46:03 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NF100CPHR0RMU60@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Fri, 14 Nov 2014 22:46:03 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <54665EAB.6050805@cs.ucla.edu> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 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:177112 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 11:57:31 -0800 > From: Paul Eggert > CC: Andreas Schwab > > On 11/13/2014 10:57 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > Why is config.status dependent on lisp/version.el? > > Andreas Schwab added that dependency in 2007 to fix a problem back when > Emacs was managed under CVS and did not assume GNU Make. Please see > this thread: > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-04/msg01375.html Thanks. > I haven't looked at it carefully, but I wouldn't be surprised if the > dependency (or something like it) is still needed. I'll CC: Andreas to > give him a heads-up. AFAIR, at the time, we updated the Emacs version by grepping version.el, and perhaps that was the reason for the dependency. But nowadays we do that in configure.ac, so I wonder if the version.el dependency is still needed.