Re: Emacs-diffs Digest, Vol 67, Issue 11

[Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>]

In article <u4p89dgvm.fsf@gnu.org>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> > From: Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
> > CC: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> > Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 09:40:45 +0900
> > 
> > The target leim-list.el depends on leim-ext.el, and we do
> > this at the end:
> > 
> > 	sed -n '/^[^;]/ p' < ${srcdir}/leim-ext.el >> $@
> > 
> > So, when you modify leim-ext.el, leim-list.el is re-build,
> > but, if we don't remove leim-list.el at first, the contents
> > of leim-ext.el are duplicated.
> > 
> > In addition, update-leim-list-file works a little bit faster
> > when leim-list.el is vacant.
> > 
> > Do you actually find any problem with this change?

> No, I just wondered why something that was unchanged for so long is
> being changed now.  I guess you are saying that appending leim-ext.el
> to the existing leim-list.el was a mistake because it duplicated the
> same stuff time and again?

I don't think appending leim-ext.el itself is not a mistake.
The mistake was not to start creating leim-list.el from scratch.

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Kenichi Handa
handa@ni.aist.go.jp