From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jim Meyering Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: A better autogen.sh Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 21:26:01 +0200 Message-ID: <87vcz0s94m.fsf@rho.meyering.net> References: <87y66fv2d3.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <83mxmrzhb6.fsf@gnu.org> <4D3C9C5B.8050303@cs.ucla.edu> <00oc4v55eb.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87vcz2xh57.fsf@rho.meyering.net> <87pqpaxgi3.fsf@rho.meyering.net> <877hbhw2ue.fsf@rho.meyering.net> <87tyeku85x.fsf@rho.meyering.net> <83vcz0qz2n.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1301513594 21686 80.91.229.12 (30 Mar 2011 19:33:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 19:33:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: chadpbrown@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 30 21:33:10 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 1Q518b-00067o-5K for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 21:33:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50997 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q512B-0003co-S4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 15:26:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=34113 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q511y-0003c4-Qs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 15:26:15 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q511t-0001qg-As for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 15:26:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mx.meyering.net ([82.230.74.64]:38478) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q511n-0001kn-Oz; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 15:26:03 -0400 Original-Received: by rho.meyering.net (Acme Bit-Twister, from userid 1000) id BCD576049F; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 21:26:01 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <83vcz0qz2n.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 30 Mar 2011 19:48:32 +0200") Original-Lines: 31 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 82.230.74.64 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:137927 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> From: Jim Meyering >> Cc: chadpbrown@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org >> Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 14:03:54 +0200 >> >> Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> >> From: Jim Meyering >> >> Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 08:15:53 +0200 >> >> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org >> >> >> >> As far as I know, bzr does not have a way to deposit a >> >> non-version-controlled file in a just checked-out directory. >> > >> > What do you mean by that? >> >> I see no ambiguity. >> Please rephrase the question to explain >> precisely what you don't understand. > > Sorry. Let me see if I understand you: did you mean that whenever the > tree is updated from upstream, a file that does not exist in the > repository should be created in the working tree? In context you elided I mentioned a Makefile. The request was to provide something like GNUmakefile that would take effect also for non-GNU-make before anything like autogen.sh or ./configure is run. I mentioned that we don't VC Makefile. Hence, the requestor would have to have some way of making a bzr clone command create a non-VC'd Makefile in the directory it creates. AFAIK, that's not possible.