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: Checking for sed during configure on Windows Date: Sun, 08 May 2011 06:02:31 +0300 Message-ID: <83r589ki7s.fsf@gnu.org> References: <4DC5A46F.9030601@gmail.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1304823760 9457 80.91.229.12 (8 May 2011 03:02:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 8 May 2011 03:02:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Christoph Scholtes Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun May 08 05:02:36 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QIuGR-0004uK-Qs for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 08 May 2011 05:02:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34690 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QIuGR-0007UL-5B for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 May 2011 23:02:35 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:54006) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QIuGO-0007UG-O5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 May 2011 23:02:33 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QIuGN-0007FU-Kk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 May 2011 23:02:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:40163) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QIuGN-0007C2-AU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 May 2011 23:02:31 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LKU00L00WE3IH00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 May 2011 06:02:28 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.228.234.175]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LKU00LY4WG39C50@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Sun, 08 May 2011 06:02:28 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <4DC5A46F.9030601@gmail.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 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:139217 Archived-At: > Date: Sat, 07 May 2011 13:58:39 -0600 > From: Christoph Scholtes > CC: Eli Zaretskii > > [1:text/plain Hide] > When I run a `make bootstrap' after `maintainer-clean' or a fresh > checkout I have to remember to regenerate `getopt_.h'. > > The following patch checks if sed is available and if it is, does this > automatically. Since this is only a problem during bootstrap, how about moving the command to some target that only gets run as part of bootstrap? I would also support simply trying to run Sed at that time, without any configure-time checks. People who bootstrap can be trusted to have Sed, I think. If they don't Make will barf and let them know. Thanks.