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 21:13:12 +0200 Message-ID: <83tyf2q3p3.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> <8339mnq6l1.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1300302842 26029 80.91.229.12 (16 Mar 2011 19:14:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 19:14:02 +0000 (UTC) To: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 16 20:13:57 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 1PzwAK-00089m-TE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 20:13:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38727 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PzwAK-0000MN-4V for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 15:13:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=45756 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pzw9t-00007u-Ny for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 15:13:26 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pzw9s-0007kL-En for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 15:13:25 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:58070) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pzw9s-0007kB-6l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 15:13:24 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LI60040000S1Y00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 21:13:23 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.124.107.218]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LI60037E01Y7290@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 21:13:12 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <8339mnq6l1.fsf@gnu.org> 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: 2.1.5 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:137309 Archived-At: > Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 20:10:50 +0200 > From: Eli Zaretskii > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > From: Stefan Monnier > > Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 11:34:42 -0400 > > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > > I.e. make a "boostrap-files" (or should it say "generated-files"?) > > directory. Move configure, aclocal.m4, src/config.in (and > > lisp/ldefs-boot.el) to it, then install your change (tho change the > > instructions to say "run ./configure" rather than "run configure" since > > we should not encourage people to have . in their PATH). > > That would be fine. I assume that directory will be under admin/ ? Ignore me. They cannot be in admin/ because they need to be in the release tarball.