From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Pretest Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 08:33:04 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87lkn1tzav.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87wt6ka3ij.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87ejssjhh0.fsf@furball.mit.edu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1162215352 10069 80.91.229.2 (30 Oct 2006 13:35:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 13:35:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: cyd@stupidchicken.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 30 14:35:49 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GeXIS-0004Od-C8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 14:35:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GeXIQ-0006W1-7A for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 08:35:22 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GeXGI-0005Va-LP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 08:33:10 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GeXGH-0005Uh-Nq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 08:33:09 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GeXGH-0005UU-Cq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 08:33:09 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GeXGH-0007ds-9M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 08:33:09 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1GeXGC-00022B-Kh; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 08:33:04 -0500 Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-reply-to: (message from Eli Zaretskii on Sun, 29 Oct 2006 02:43:57 -0500) 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:61377 Archived-At: I don't know when I'll have time to do that; fencepost.gnu.org is not my main machine. Even if I do find the portion of the diffs that causes the problem, then what? We don't have a version of Autoconf that would have the effect of applying only part of the diffs, so once again we will be in a position where regenerating the configure script would be difficult of impossible. I have not followed the whole thread, and I am not certain I understand the issue. Is the problem is that a certain snapshot of Autoconf gives an incorrect configure file? if so, we should never use that version of Autoconf to generate the configure file, and we should report the bug to the Autoconf developers. Yidong, can you install a released Autoconf on your machine and use that from now on? However, in this case, config.in and config.h are identical to the ones you included in the tarball, and so is src/Makefile.in. Am I missing something? That puzzles me, too.