From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mathieu Lirzin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Switch to Automake? Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2015 14:40:39 +0100 Message-ID: <87bn9ueaaw.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1450014057 28532 80.91.229.3 (13 Dec 2015 13:40:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2015 13:40:57 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 13 14:40:56 2015 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 1a86tT-0005iy-L1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 13 Dec 2015 14:40:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55323 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a86tT-0007y8-34 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 13 Dec 2015 08:40:55 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60802) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a86tP-0007x5-MW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Dec 2015 08:40:52 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a86tK-0006oh-OR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Dec 2015 08:40:51 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:39371) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a86tK-0006oa-LT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Dec 2015 08:40:46 -0500 Original-Received: from mek33-4-82-236-46-88.fbx.proxad.net ([82.236.46.88]:56366 helo=godel) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1a86tK-0007Lg-2P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Dec 2015 08:40:46 -0500 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:196208 Archived-At: Hi, In order to improve the maintainability of Emacs and to enforce the usage of conventions described by GNU Coding Standards, I think it would be a good idea to use Automake in Emacs build system. Before starting to work on the conversion, I would like to know if such change would be accepted. If yes I would like to request some advices on how to proceed or comments about any potential issue. TIA, -- Mathieu Lirzin