From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rob Browning Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Should lisp/Makefile.in custom-deps be using EMACS or emacs? Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2002 09:23:53 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <87heja5mdi.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1026139060 19972 127.0.0.1 (8 Jul 2002 14:37:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 14:37:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17RZdz-0005C1-00 for ; Mon, 08 Jul 2002 16:37:39 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17RZly-0006i3-00 for ; Mon, 08 Jul 2002 16:45:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17RZQt-0005VX-00; Mon, 08 Jul 2002 10:24:07 -0400 Original-Received: from dsl-209-87-109-2.constant.com ([209.87.109.2] helo=defaultvalue.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17RZQl-0005Ud-00 for ; Mon, 08 Jul 2002 10:23:59 -0400 Original-Received: from raven.i.defaultvalue.org (raven.i.defaultvalue.org [192.168.1.7]) by defaultvalue.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B795366B5; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 09:23:54 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by raven.i.defaultvalue.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 35FFB1876; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 09:23:54 -0500 (CDT) Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon, 8 Jul 2002 16:56:06 +0300 (IDT)") Original-Lines: 29 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.2 (i386-pc-linux-gnu) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:5570 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:5570 Eli Zaretskii writes: > Is there any other way to solve your particular problem? Some non-Unix > platforms have problems with using $(emacs), so from my perspective it's > best to leave $(EMACS) $(EMACSOPT) wherever possible. Sure. There are several ways I can work around this. I had just presumed that the build process would prefer the source tree versions of the .el files, and so was surprised when my changes to ./lisp/custom-deps.el didn't have any (immediate) effect. You might want to make a mention of this in the INSTALL docs though. If I understand correctly, it means that anyone packaging (or building) emacs who wants to make sure they don't build using stale source might need to remove a previous copy of emacs from their system before building. Of course this would only be an issue for the relevant files, like custom-deps.el, but an important change there wouldn't have an effect until the build *after* the next install. In any case, thanks for the help, and I'll just work around it locally. Could I just use $(emacs) in preference to $(EMACS) in that Makefile.in for the debian packages? We don't have any non-Unix-ish platforms. -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org, @linuxdevel.com, and @debian.org Previously @cs.utexas.edu GPG=1C58 8B2C FB5E 3F64 EA5C 64AE 78FE E5FE F0CB A0AD