From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: INSTALL-CVS Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2003 17:46:25 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <16086.31800.692970.193443@nick.uklinux.net> <16090.26460.514633.853505@nick.uklinux.net> <200306041806.h54I6L0e026749@rum.cs.yale.edu> <200306042100.h54L01gs027255@rum.cs.yale.edu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1054851131 30503 80.91.224.249 (5 Jun 2003 22:12:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 22:12:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 06 00:12:08 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19O2xs-0007vi-00 for ; Fri, 06 Jun 2003 00:12:08 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19O3G8-00064N-00 for ; Fri, 06 Jun 2003 00:31:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19O2wQ-0004rt-HE for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 05 Jun 2003 18:10:38 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19O2w0-0004qX-23 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jun 2003 18:10:12 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19O2oT-0002Xf-F6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jun 2003 18:02:29 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19O2Z1-0006ZF-HG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jun 2003 17:46:27 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.20) id 19O2Yz-0002RC-8q; Thu, 05 Jun 2003 17:46:25 -0400 Original-To: "Stefan Monnier" In-reply-to: <200306042100.h54L01gs027255@rum.cs.yale.edu> (monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu) Original-cc: David.Masterson@synopsys.com Original-cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:14789 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:14789 It seems the only time that I need to re-run a configure script is when I'm hacking on the corresponding program. Otherwise, I just untar, configure, make install, and throw away. Perhaps disks are big enough nowadays that people don't need to delete their tar files. Maybe that means `make clean' is less needed than it was 15 years ago.