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: Re: Switch to Automake? Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 17:15:31 +0100 Message-ID: <87oadrg02k.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87bn9ueaaw.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1450196155 31009 80.91.229.3 (15 Dec 2015 16:15:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 16:15:55 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 15 17:15:48 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 1a8sGR-0007nq-L2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Dec 2015 17:15:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37781 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a8sGQ-0001pT-KK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Dec 2015 11:15:46 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38557) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a8sGI-0001pJ-Qq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Dec 2015 11:15:39 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a8sGE-0002AD-QJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Dec 2015 11:15:38 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:56475) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a8sGE-0002A8-Hn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Dec 2015 11:15:34 -0500 Original-Received: from mek33-4-82-236-46-88.fbx.proxad.net ([82.236.46.88]:39168 helo=godel) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1a8sGD-0002dk-V7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Dec 2015 11:15:34 -0500 In-Reply-To: (John Wiegley's message of "Mon, 14 Dec 2015 12:28:02 -0800") 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:196312 Archived-At: John Wiegley writes: >>>>>> Mathieu Lirzin writes: > >> 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. > > I would be happy to use automake as much as is feasible. I've always found > maintaining Makefile.am to be a much easier job than Makefile.in. OK, I have just started working on it today. Thanks for your enthusiasm, -- Mathieu Lirzin