From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Witness computation - minor breakage in the build system Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 20:53:31 +0100 Message-ID: <87r48dgeo4.fsf@igel.home> References: <20140112043735.C0A2E380523@snark.thyrsus.com> <52D21EFA.1010905@cs.ucla.edu> <20140112050859.GA1742@thyrsus.com> <20140112145740.GA5858@thyrsus.com> <87d2jxc7bs.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1389556426 31198 80.91.229.3 (12 Jan 2014 19:53:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 19:53:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 12 20:53:51 2014 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 1W2R6V-0003F5-81 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Jan 2014 20:53:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39266 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W2R6U-0003Pa-Tw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Jan 2014 14:53:50 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47767) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W2R6N-0003PQ-VK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jan 2014 14:53:48 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W2R6J-00037z-4k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jan 2014 14:53:43 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([212.18.0.9]:39282) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W2R6D-00037T-QP; Sun, 12 Jan 2014 14:53:33 -0500 Original-Received: from frontend1.mail.m-online.net (unknown [192.168.8.180]) by mail-out.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3f2TBh4Lwxz4KK2J; Sun, 12 Jan 2014 20:53:32 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (dynscan1.mnet-online.de [192.168.6.68]) by mail.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3f2TBh40nlzbbfp; Sun, 12 Jan 2014 20:53:32 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mnet-online.de Original-Received: from mail.mnet-online.de ([192.168.8.180]) by localhost (dynscan1.mail.m-online.net [192.168.6.68]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id LaaGV-armOtj; Sun, 12 Jan 2014 20:53:31 +0100 (CET) X-Auth-Info: e6OLFCC9JElb3pKO4A7QN3niDksp9HRpjEsb7GCbo/c= Original-Received: from igel.home (ppp-88-217-52-217.dynamic.mnet-online.de [88.217.52.217]) by mail.mnet-online.de (Postfix) with ESMTPA; Sun, 12 Jan 2014 20:53:31 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: by igel.home (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4112B2C1576; Sun, 12 Jan 2014 20:53:31 +0100 (CET) X-Yow: I like your SNOOPY POSTER!! In-Reply-To: <87d2jxc7bs.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (David Kastrup's message of "Sun, 12 Jan 2014 20:45:43 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x X-Received-From: 212.18.0.9 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:168228 Archived-At: David Kastrup writes: > Stefan Monnier writes: > >>> The benefit is that a deoendency on the VCS goes away. >> >> I don't see that should be considered as a benefit. > > Well, the whole point of the GPL and the delivered source tar balls is > to give the user the ability to make his own changes. If the Makefile > dependencies don't work when making changes to the source from a > tarball, it does not look much like a source tarball. I don't think you can put that much into it. You can alway run `make -C lisp autoloads' manually to update loaddefs.el. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."