From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Merging emacs-23 into trunk Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 21:01:15 +0100 Message-ID: References: <0ybp5wzz95.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <834obofqyk.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1289505711 8648 80.91.229.12 (11 Nov 2010 20:01:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 20:01:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, Kenichi Handa To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 11 21:01:46 2010 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 1PGdL6-0002MI-KX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 21:01:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56994 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PGdL6-0007sb-6N for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 15:01:44 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=36387 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PGdL0-0007kw-IZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 15:01:39 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PGdKz-0008Po-Bq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 15:01:38 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-ey0-f169.google.com ([209.85.215.169]:54396) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PGdKz-0008Pb-67; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 15:01:37 -0500 Original-Received: by eydd26 with SMTP id d26so1397855eyd.0 for ; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 12:01:36 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:mime-version:received:in-reply-to :references:from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=KXkQFg52unVypoe/8XgKOkhIXbU+6MWFEk1a+8a4S/U=; b=e0teLtAyzP3/+o2uwlgNDIgK+C81eW/5tAW2XLan66+AnbQFZ5+AN/rUIbnYqn137U MsmX46IK0OTum8Wa/Wolop0GsKyRcQhDiLnBWqtaG0IdZSwzvrRoc6j451QdvR3XVQeI NaNidz3UGfllm4eRs9Yb3s6h7gklCfMRlTY58= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; b=LMyN7Et69w9UvbSBLfmeiE9Ea7yEedX1E91DDPigplfFh+gWW61WnD8mZoqtMAxqT3 6g5rqYrJ6zqaQQbXBsw7ogOXoY007riOqWDmZeZUlUhjBT3TiPmQtPpQd6H9FQ1z4X8y id61xFuoqR9T667zLea/m6fzcuDXPs6zjq9wE= Original-Received: by 10.213.33.212 with SMTP id i20mr1280616ebd.84.1289505695697; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 12:01:35 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.213.22.135 with HTTP; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 12:01:15 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:132550 Archived-At: On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 8:55 PM, Glenn Morris wrote: > Kenichi Handa wrote: > >> We can include configure in tarball. For those who get the source >> from bzr, asking them to install autoconf is, I think, no big deal. > > Absolutely. I think it is entirely reasonable to say "building Emacs > from bzr on a POSIX platform requires autoconf". You are not building in the POSIX environment on w32. > As a random data point, GNU make apparently did this years ago: > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-make/2004-02/msg00040.html > >