From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: A better autogen.sh Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 07:53:47 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87y66fv2d3.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <877hdvd49f.fsf@meyering.net> <83mxmrzhb6.fsf@gnu.org> <4D3C9C5B.8050303@cs.ucla.edu> <4D7FDFB0.6020203@cs.ucla.edu> <4D7FEF16.7040107@cs.ucla.edu> <8362rjr9po.fsf@gnu.org> <4hk4fzsnv8.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <4D805B3F.1030900@cs.ucla.edu> <4D807E05.4000600@cs.ucla.edu> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1300276443 24968 80.91.229.12 (16 Mar 2011 11:54:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 11:54:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: joakim@verona.se Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 16 12:53:59 2011 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PzpIZ-0000xp-Fl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 12:53:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48713 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PzpIY-0004A0-Rp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 07:53:54 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=39752 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PzpIU-00049q-BD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 07:53:51 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PzpIS-0005By-TF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 07:53:50 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:36020) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PzpIS-0005Bu-Qc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 07:53:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eliz by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PzpIR-00085B-Ry; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 07:53:47 -0400 In-reply-to: (joakim@verona.se) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.10 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:137279 Archived-At: > From: joakim@verona.se > Cc: Paul Eggert , emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 11:47:58 +0100 > > Would it be any help if anyone* set up a cron job to do this > automatically? That is, run autoconf and check in the results in the dos > dir? Yes, that would be a good solution, thanks for bringing it up. The only concern would be: can we trust the machine on which this job runs to exist and continue running it for as long as Emacs exists? Doing that on savannah (if possible) might solve this concern as well.