From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ralf Angeli Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: `make' written in elisp Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 10:10:41 +0100 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1104745161 3688 80.91.229.6 (3 Jan 2005 09:39:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 09:39:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 03 10:39:12 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ClOgA-0002Co-00 for ; Mon, 03 Jan 2005 10:39:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1ClOrI-0004sm-Uz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Jan 2005 04:50:41 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1ClOqM-0004jt-4W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Jan 2005 04:49:42 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1ClOqK-0004jS-V6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Jan 2005 04:49:41 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1ClOqK-0004iT-K6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Jan 2005 04:49:40 -0500 Original-Received: from [134.96.7.31] (helo=justus.rz.uni-saarland.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1ClOeq-0004Wc-7W; Mon, 03 Jan 2005 04:37:48 -0500 Original-Received: from iwi-gate.iwi.uni-sb.de (iwi-gate.iwi.uni-sb.de [134.96.72.13]) by justus.rz.uni-saarland.de (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j039Ak0I1171469; Mon, 3 Jan 2005 10:10:46 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [134.96.72.190] (helo=neutrino.iwi.uni-sb.de) by iwi-gate.iwi.uni-sb.de with esmtp (Exim 4.33; FreeBSD) id 1ClOEZ-0006ap-KJ; Mon, 03 Jan 2005 10:10:39 +0100 Original-Received: from angeli by neutrino.iwi.uni-sb.de with local (Exim 4.43) id 1ClOEb-0002Ew-0n; Mon, 03 Jan 2005 10:10:41 +0100 Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Sun, 02 Jan 2005 23:32:07 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-IWi-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-IWi-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-IWi-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=0, required 5) X-MailScanner-From: angeli@iwi.uni-sb.de X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.5.1 (justus.rz.uni-saarland.de [134.96.7.31]); Mon, 03 Jan 2005 10:10:46 +0100 (CET) X-AntiVirus: checked by AntiVir Milter 1.0.6; AVE 6.29.0.5; VDF 6.29.0.45 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: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:31724 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:31724 * Richard Stallman (2005-01-03) writes: > Assuming the `make' part is solved by install.el or elmake, we "only" > need an Elisp-based substitute for `configure'. > > That is too heavy-weight; I am not interested in installing that kind > of package system in Emacs. At least it should be able to call things like `configure' which is a mandatory step in the build process of packages like AUCTeX and preview-latex. During this step the values of some important variables are determined and written to the package's site configuration file. For example XEmacs' package system suffers from its inability to do that. AUCTeX users who want to use the package provided by the XEmacs package system have to do the respective configuration manually which the configure script does automatically. -- Ralf