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: preprocessing Makefile Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 17:21:13 -0400 Message-ID: References: <873azkzp71.fsf@ambire.localdomain> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1184880114 2040 80.91.229.12 (19 Jul 2007 21:21:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 21:21:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: alserkli@inbox.ru, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Thien-Thi Nguyen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 19 23:21:53 2007 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 4.50) id 1IBdRW-0007B8-RN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 23:21:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IBdRV-0000kD-Kf for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 17:21:49 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IBdPq-0007r8-9j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 17:20:06 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IBdPp-0007qc-Eo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 17:20:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IBdPp-0007qU-9n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 17:20:05 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IBdPo-0003AK-V5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 17:20:05 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IBdQv-00030B-Pm; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 17:21:13 -0400 In-reply-to: <873azkzp71.fsf@ambire.localdomain> (message from Thien-Thi Nguyen on Thu, 19 Jul 2007 12:02:26 +0200) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:75139 Archived-At: i understand that early autoconf was not up to the task of configuring emacs, but perhaps these days it can be cajoled to DTRT. does anyone object to this kind of revamp? if so, why? The existing mechanism is very powerful. I started using it long before there was anything like autoconf. I don't know the autoconf features that would replace it. If they are equally powerful, then I don't mind if we switch to them. Can you explain how they work? How about emailing me (personally) the relevant documentation?